# Losing Battery Voltage
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [September 24, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882 "2007-09-24T13:52:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 1:52pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882/1 "2007-09-24T13:52:39Z")
Car is a 1992 honda civic, has a vtec d-series motor in it.
Symptom: Car loses voltage over a fairly short period of time, about a few hours and its dead.
Known:
- Battery is only a few WEEKS old. With the positive terminal disconnected, it holds a charge as it should.
- With terminal disconnected, the car runs fine and with with plenty of incoming voltage from the alternator.
- With terminal connected, the car is losing voltage with the car being completely turned off. I thought there may have been an issue with wires from the stereo being disconnected, so i pulled the fuse, but the problem still persists.
Within a few minutes(5 or so) it drops a few tenths of a volt, so over an hour or two, its to the point where it just wont start at all.
Any ideas?
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### Author:  [@Pauly](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Pauly)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 3:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882/2 "2007-09-24T15:23:08Z")
Hook the test light up and start pulling fuses till it goes out
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### Author:  [@Justin](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Justin)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 3:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882/3 "2007-09-24T15:31:13Z")
Why was the battery replaced?
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 3:39pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882/4 "2007-09-24T15:39:15Z")
never had a good battery in it.
its looking like the alternator is the culprit. with the wire disconnected from the alternator, its fine, with it on, it discharges.
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### Author:  [@ZOMGVTEK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/ZOMGVTEK)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 3:55pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882/5 "2007-09-24T15:55:55Z")
^ Wow, thats odd… Alternator is causing a load? Hmm… If it holds a charge overnight without the alternator connected, just get a new one off ebay or a junkyard… Possibly on here…
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### Author:  [@boardjnky4](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/boardjnky4)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/losing-battery-voltage/35882/6 "2007-09-24T16:23:28Z")
werd, it is odd indeed. And the green plug isnt even connected, its just the wire that feeds the power back to battery for charging. I tried a different wire to connect from the alternator back to the fuse box too, same thing happens. Its gonna be the alternator.