[billkinney]

Fema,
I have batt drain troubles on my motorhomes ALL the time. I disconnect the hot side of the batt and hook up a test light between the batt and the red batt lead. Then I start pulling fuses until the light goes out. Then you work on that circuit.
Good luck,
Bill

[FEMA]

Good idea, thanks Bill - at the suggestion of another friend, after jump starting the car last night I disconnected one of the terminals (the negative in this case) to take all circuits out of the equation and see if the battery is by chance a dud. Connected it back up tonight and found the battery draining before I could get her started - so, its the battery?

This is a cheap Walmart battery as I bought it only to check out the car prior to purchase.

Alos, I am getting 11.30 - 11.40 VDC on the meter when I hook it to the battery while the car is not running. When I had it running the other day the meter was reading about 13.50 - 13.80 VDC.