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Old 02-04-2019, 04:27 PM   #194 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ksa8907 View Post
The resistor wont drain anything. It is merely a throttling device and will only cause an effect when energy is "flowing".
I understand this. When a certain amount of energy does have to flow across it wastes some of that as heat, but I agree that ultimately it shouldn't cause the battery to run dead when the car is sitting.
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