There should not be a battery drain issue. The unit in sleep mode will draw only 3mA of power. a typical car battery with 60Ahr would take approximately 20,000hrs to drain the battery from the BPM4.
Did you have the car battery disconnected while you did the install? Also before you let it sit overnight did you clear the code again first?Let my car sit for about 8 hours, started up fine but with a 387f code, seems to be related to battery drain. Followed the instructions on wiring and I replaced my battery just 6 months ago. Going to let it sit overnight and see what happens but that seems like more cause for concern.
Thanks for the advice. I’m going to try mounting it as shown in the last photo above, between the sat radio and TCU. I’ll test heat and temps etc - if too hot I’ll hit you up for your spare MOST terminator.You can get a MOST terminator which is basically a loop which keeps the fiber optic ring bus going. I bought two when doing my combox retro fit so I think I have a spare.
Also below your tcu should be space if you don't have a MULF. The problem I have with that space is water pools there if you get water in your trunk somehow.
I installed mine today and got the battery drain code 2DED...Finally got mine installed, just have a single 450 connected atm and was having some stalls at low speeds with no codes besides the ekp3 being overdrawn. Hoping the bpm4 allieviates that.
Is everyone just connecting it directly to the battery? Started hearing about battery drain issues, wondering if people are running a relay/fuse tap instead or it's just cars sitting a while on old batteries.
I installed mine today and got the battery drain code 2DED...
I installed mine today and got the battery drain code 2DED...
I will and report back.I'm about to install my BPM4 next, just finishing up the pump parts. You should probably send Mike an email and see if he can help you get it sorted.
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I have the bpm4 installed on my car and this is popping up on ista+. Is this normal? I'm also throwing 2aaf. I haven't had the chance to log yet as I need to see if my motor is ok first.
Is it planned to have the software updated on the BPM4 so when the shop do a check on the car "no errors" would show?This is normal for ISTA to show the EKP communications like this. The unit ties into the PT-CAN circuit and reads duty cycles the DME is sending out. It only reports back necessary data to the DME, and does not have all of the communications that would make ISTA happy. This does not effect function of the unit.
Is it planned to have the software updated on the BPM4 so when the shop do a check on the car "no errors" would show?