No, that would be 30 miliamps, or 0.030 amps. 1000 miliamps is 1 amp. 30 miliamps is an acceptable current draw. You could try disconnecting the voltage regulator and/or the ignition module and see if it goes away. A 3 miliamp difference between checking is no big deal.

 

Should I keep checking or just not worry about it? .03 amps isnt much. Thank you again.

 

I wouldn't worry about 30 mils. That is not draining your battery in 2 days, unless your battery is junk.

 

Okay, I'm going start putting her back together. One last question, thou. Should I clean up under the faring with like electrical cleaner (don't wanna use water!!!) or just leave it be. And not trying to sound like a broken record, but thanks again for your help Dr. and others. this is a great form. Hope I can help out someone on here as you have helped me!!!!!

 

It never hurts to use an electrical contact cleaner spray on the connections wile you have access to them.

 

The orange wire is the accessory wire throughout the harness. If you put an ohm meter on that wire it will show a circuit to ground because there are many things drawing power off that wire all the time! e.g. the radio pulls power, if you have an alarm it will draw power. These will always show a circuit to ground.

The question is how much power is that circuit drawing? Place an amp meter between the first point that the accessory wire draws power (behind the headlight) and determine the amount of draw. It should be a few milliamps. More than that and your battery will go flat pretty quick. Even a few milliamps will flatten a small motorcycle battery over a couple of weeks.

Another source of power draw is your regulator. A few milliamps of power will go back through that to earth with the engine off. It should be almost unmeasurable but it's there. The manual provides how much it should be. You can isolate that with a relay if you wanted to.

 

Going to start cleaning under the faring today or tomorrow...... hope to get her back together in a few days. Gotta take the youngen to camp and pick him up this week, plus other work to get done around here. (No I don't work. I'm retired military (Navy) if your wondering.) Thanks!!!!!!!