Originally Posted by
Barry2
ScottCommutes ,
With modern electronics (Cars, bikes, TV,) parasitic drain has become a way of life.
Even if all it's doing is waiting to be woken up or maintaining the time on a clock.
Most modern flashlights don't have a true old school battery isolation switch.
It you really want to avoid parasitic drain, isolate/remove the battery.
Barry
Yup. I was guessing something mechanically wrong with a connection that was leaking current. An e-bike battery hopefully has enough juice in it to power a couple of microchips through the off-season.