hi i have a series of lights and radios currently hard wired to my battery. i went away for a couple months and my battery was low but my truck still started. is this normal or is it possible that even when the radios (cb and a scanner) and lights (6 strobes, 4 led grill lights, and a led lightbar) are drawing power from the battery even when they are all turned off? the strobe lights and grill lights are hooked up to an external switch, the cb and scanner have inline fuses and are hooked directly to the battery i use the ***** on each to turn them on and off, the light bar has a switch box with a fuse that is also hooked directly to the battery. if they do draw power while they are off how can i make it so they don't? if it is normal for this to happen to the battery over a couple months how can i prevent it from going completly dead? would it be better to hook my cb and scanner to the ignition if so how do i do that or is that to risky? Should i hook up another battery or is one enough and how would i go about doing this?

thanks,
matt

 

From the little experience I have storing vehicles (3 of them), this is common. Well with me anyway because I keep forgetting to disconnect the stupid thing.

 

Fairly common. There is always power draw (clock, computer, etc.) Two months without charging the battery would certainly make it reluctant to turn over.