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Originally Posted by Gilly
MoneyPit: You connect an ammeter between the neg post of the battery and the neg cable and watch the current draw. Accomplishes the same thing as leaving the battery connected, doesn't require and special wire-rigging. If you have a multiple scale ammeter you are accomplishing the same thing. The components should function just fine through the ammeter, up to a few amps.
Gilly
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Ahhh. I recalled a detail after I posted that. Caddys had an issue where excessive current draw would not occur until after the components were powered up. Disconnecting the battery reset everything and hid the problem. The jury-rigged test leads were to permit cycling the ignition key to power up everything without blowing the fuses in the multimeter.