<story><title>I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days</title><url>https://davidmuller.github.io/posts/2023/04/10/how-i-fixed-a-parasitic-drain-in-408-days.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reason077</author><text>My flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She&amp;#x27;ll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh!</text></item><item><author>o10449366</author><text>My wife, bless her heart, leaves everything partially open. Not even just open, but she&amp;#x27;ll screw the lid on jars just enough where if I pick it up by the top they&amp;#x27;ll drop. It drives me crazy.</text></item><item><author>adversaryIdiot</author><text>Thats insane... To consistently not close the door like that</text></item><item><author>civilized</author><text>My wife and I gave our old car to her parents. In the subsequent years, its battery kept dying and we had to go over to their place and jump it. Never happened in the prior 7 years we&amp;#x27;d owned the car. The mechanic said nothing wrong with the battery, but suggested there might be a parasitic drain somewhere.&lt;p&gt;A few days later, we were visiting them. I looked at the car and saw the door closed, but not properly latched and ever-so-slightly ajar. You know, that half-closed thing car doors do when you don&amp;#x27;t close them hard enough.&lt;p&gt;It turns out someone, possibly my son, had been not closing the door completely. This did not keep the lights on or cause any other visible sign, as it would in some cars.&lt;p&gt;After I told them to slam the door fully shut, never a problem again for 2 years and counting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>lelanthran</author><text>&amp;gt;  My flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She&amp;#x27;ll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh!&lt;p&gt;So? Hit the cancel button when you close it - you have to be right there to close it after all.&lt;p&gt;TBH, I do this too, because I hate putting in some milk to warm for cereal and getting out warm milk flavoured with and smelling of the curry we warmed last night.&lt;p&gt;Anytime the microwave oven is used for aromatic food or any meal with flavouring, leave the door open.</text></comment>
<story><title>I fixed a parasitic drain on my car in 408 days</title><url>https://davidmuller.github.io/posts/2023/04/10/how-i-fixed-a-parasitic-drain-in-408-days.html</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Reason077</author><text>My flatmate does this with kitchen cupboard doors, and, most annoyingly, the microwave. She&amp;#x27;ll open the microwave to stop it, takes her food out and, just ... leaves it open. Then when I close it later it will start up again with nothing inside. Arrrgh!</text></item><item><author>o10449366</author><text>My wife, bless her heart, leaves everything partially open. Not even just open, but she&amp;#x27;ll screw the lid on jars just enough where if I pick it up by the top they&amp;#x27;ll drop. It drives me crazy.</text></item><item><author>adversaryIdiot</author><text>Thats insane... To consistently not close the door like that</text></item><item><author>civilized</author><text>My wife and I gave our old car to her parents. In the subsequent years, its battery kept dying and we had to go over to their place and jump it. Never happened in the prior 7 years we&amp;#x27;d owned the car. The mechanic said nothing wrong with the battery, but suggested there might be a parasitic drain somewhere.&lt;p&gt;A few days later, we were visiting them. I looked at the car and saw the door closed, but not properly latched and ever-so-slightly ajar. You know, that half-closed thing car doors do when you don&amp;#x27;t close them hard enough.&lt;p&gt;It turns out someone, possibly my son, had been not closing the door completely. This did not keep the lights on or cause any other visible sign, as it would in some cars.&lt;p&gt;After I told them to slam the door fully shut, never a problem again for 2 years and counting.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hoseja</author><text>IMO a good thing, lets them ventilate better. Not cancelling the timer is the wrong thing there.</text></comment>