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Originally Posted by grivas
Thank you for the explanation, the reason for asking was to find out if the instrument you are using can be used for tracing parasitic drain, I suppose it can be, since a reading of greater than 50mA, will need investigating to find the cause.
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Yes - it can - since anything above about 25mA will be indicating an amount of parasitic drain.
All you are really doing with the instrument is what you would do with a normal ammeter, which is to measure current flow from the battery to the car's electronics.