DITEX Current Monitor Pro – Parasitic Drain Tester

The DITEX Parasitic Drain Tester (Current Monitor Pro) is designed еspecially for battery parasitic drain monitoring. This test evaluates and analyzes the level of parasitic current drain from the battery during the vehicle's shutdown phase and sleep periods.

Almost all new cars can drain their batteries over time. The continuous drain of a modern car, with everything shut down, is between 10 and 50mA/h (rarely up to 80mA). Nevertheless, a battery should not drain to the point where it won’t be able to start the car after a few days. If your vehicle is drawing power from the battery and all of the lights and other electrical components are off, you might have a parasitic battery drain (or draw).

While you can typically identify the cause of a parasitic draw by connecting a digital multimeter to the negative battery terminal, using the DITEX Parasitic Drain Tester "Current Monitor Pro" is much easier and more reliable. The tester provides a straightforward way to connect a multimeter or oscilloscope (4mm banana sockets) to the vehicle's electrical system for diagnosing hidden battery drains. There are also a second pair of banana sockets on the other side, to which a set of current measuring probes and large crocodile clips are connected.

Three Ways to Use Current Monitor Pro

• As a standalone parasitic drain monitor with built-in alarm;
• With almost all digital multimeters;
• As a custom current probe for any oscilloscope.

The Current Monitor Pro has a sound alarm feature that activates when the leakage current exceeds a preset value. You choose the current threshold level from five possible ones: 100, 200, 300, 400, and 500mA. Thus, you don't need to stay beside the car to check the multimeter readings. The sound alarm functionality is beneficial when there is no parasitic drain during the measurement, and one appears later while all of the vehicle's electronic control modules are asleep. Whichever way of using the tool you have chosen, you can turn the built-in sound alarm on or off whenever you want.

With this tool, you are measuring the voltage drop across the embedded current shunt. If you add a custom input probe for an oscilloscope with a conversion ratio of 1V/1A, you will see the current of whichever system you are checking at that time.

Current Monitor Pro is the best, most convenient, and affordable tool to identify parasitic current leakages. There is nothing better on the market today!

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