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Hey guys,

I have 100mA leak on the TAIL L fuse (engine bay fusebox), when the car is off. The only things I know which run off this fuse are the parker lights, and the lights that illuminate the rear rego plate. I've tried unplugging all these and none seem to be the cause.

Does anyone know what else runs off this fuse? I don't particularly fancy paying an auto electrician $100+ to fix it so if I can't find the problem I'll probably just chuck a relay in to disable that circuit when the ignition is off.

Any advice or help would be appreciated!

Update: I just found more stuff which comes on the TAIL L fuse:

- The beeping noise to tell you your lights are on if the door is open.

- Front parkers

- Dash lights

So if I used ignition as an activator for a relay, then I would lose the ability to know if I've left my lights on... hmm

Edited by bombastic

If i ever find the thing making that beeping noise, i will destroy it with a screw driver... it pisses me off immensly...

as for your leak, i dunno... seems like you might have a short somewhere...

Yay I found the culprit! The little light which illuminates the keyhole for the ignition. It actually turns off if all doors are shut for longer than 10 seconds... but silly me always had the boot open when I was doing tests. If Nissan was a bit more descriptive with their fuse names then I wouldn't have wasted so much time, who woulda thunk that little light would come from the tail lights fuse...

So my actual current draw is 50mA with all doors shut. In theory it should take something like 30 days to discharge from a full charge so I figure this is OK!

Note: I didn't actually go looking for this "problem" for fun :rant: I found it when I was diagnosing a bigger actual fault.

Edited by bombastic
If i ever find the thing making that beeping noise, i will destroy it with a screw driver... it pisses me off immensly...

Yeah... it would be nice if it only beeped when the lights were on. I'm gonna have a look for it, might do a little mod so the lights have to be on for it to get power.

if you find it, let me know, im just going to disable it... its come to a point now that im so sick of hearing it that i go to turn the lights off everytime i stop the car, even in the middle of the day...

i could really really do without it :rant:

if you find it, let me know, im just going to disable it... its come to a point now that im so sick of hearing it that i go to turn the lights off everytime i stop the car, even in the middle of the day...

i could really really do without it :dry:

http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...713&hl=beep

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