BAttery drainning? Read this!!!!!

[seanner]

I FOUND THE DRAIN on the 7th of Oct. It is an internal short in my jvc khameleon CD player one channel isn't working right. I found it using a make shift test light between the positive side of the battery and the positive battery clamp. Then by pulling fuses one by one and shutting the door. To see which one would shut the light off. (All of this while the van was not running and the key off. Shut the door to close the circuit for the interior lights.)
Once I found the fuse I tracked it down to the radio, One speaker didn't sound right, so I checked the speaker by hooking it up to another channel, it was okay, I ended up replacing the fuse and unplugging the radios' harness and the light went off again. The battery hasn't drained yet.
Seanner

Steps to find a short!
1. Connect a test light between the positive battery post and
the positive battery clamp.
2. If the light is on, even barely, there is a short. (If not there is
no short.)
3. One by one pull out a fuse then check to see if the light went
out. BE SURE TO SHUT THE DOOR EACH TIME!
4. Found the fuse! What ever is on that circuit could be a
possible drain. Could be: a loose wire, rusty ground, melted
wire, faulty equipment, or corrosion.

[PaulD]

I had a similiar problem ...... I hooked an ammeter inline with the negative battery post and basically did the same thing.