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twfsa coughed up:
>
> I moved it to the next un-used hot
> (all the time) terminal, I heard a slight click and thought nothing
> of it at the time I hooked up the wire. After 3 months of having the
> radar detector pluged in, one moring the battery was dead.That
> terminal must of been hooked to a relay of some sort.
>
> Unhooked the wire no more dead battery.

I don't understand that at all. A relay to do /what/? Short the circuit
or something?

The battery cannot simply drain out without something somewhere drawing it:

A short
Your radar detector
Something else.

The relay by itself would not do that. Perhaps the draw from your radar
detector is huge?

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