Recent content by Brett Anthony

Hi all, Of course you are right Jim, the batteries are in series not parallel, I just got my terminology wrong on that one. In a couple days here I'll check them again to see if there's any drain and do all the cleaning you suggested!

Thanks for the responses! The multimeter should be absolutely fine, it's under a year old and has only been used on small electronics with low voltage/amps. I'm testing both the batteries in the exact same configuration (I'll attach some images of the test for sanity's sake). I also came across...

So, some time after getting a new car the batteries on my FOB died. So I went in and replaced them, two CR2016's was all that was needed (on top of each other in parallel). No more than a month later I noticed the battery felt like it was dying already (light not as strong, delay on the actions...