Can tazer cause a battery drain

[Alpine Warthog]

OK, Before I assume my aux battery finally died after 6 years. I'm going to tell a story and ask if tazer can cause a battery drain?
Last night, I tried the Winch mode (makes your engine idle higher) for the first time. I forgot to write down that I had to touch the gas pedal to make it turn off. SO I sat there turning winch mode ON again and again, thinking the same method that turned it on, would turn it off. No dice. So In the end, I just shut the engine off and went inside for the night. This morning truck failed to start and battery gauge showed 11.4 volts. What are the chances the Tazer caused a battery drain all night? Or has my aux most likely finally died and drained the main? Keep in mind, I've had zero weird stuff going on. No remote start failures, no weird gauges or anything else to make me worry about either the Tazer OR batteries till this morning.

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[IamPro2A]

OK, Before I assume my aux battery finally died after 6 years. I'm going to tell a story and ask if tazer can cause a battery drain?
Last night, I tried the Winch mode (makes your engine idle higher) for the first time. I forgot to write down that I had to touch the gas pedal to make it turn off. SO I sat there turning winch mode ON again and again, thinking the same method that turned it on, would turn it off. No dice. So In the end, I just shut the engine off and went inside for the night. This morning truck failed to start and battery gauge showed 11.4 volts. What are the chances the Tazer caused a battery drain all night? Or has my aux most likely finally died and drained the main? Keep in mind, I've had zero weird stuff going on. No remote start failures, no weird gauges or anything else to make me worry about either the Tazer OR batteries till this morning.

There is probably a miniscule parasitic drain from the Tazer, but in the grand scheme of all the other parasitic drains on a modern vehicle, it's well, minuscule. Only exception being if you made some programming changes with it and did not exactly do the proper reboot/sleep cycle/sleep cycle sequence. That *could* cause other problems that could kill the battery. But 6 yrs is a good run these days for vehicle batteries. I would fully charge BOTH batteries and check them and the charging system first. And budget for 2 new batteries.

 

[MaximusTX]

OK, Before I assume my aux battery finally died after 6 years. I'm going to tell a story and ask if tazer can cause a battery drain?
Last night, I tried the Winch mode (makes your engine idle higher) for the first time. I forgot to write down that I had to touch the gas pedal to make it turn off. SO I sat there turning winch mode ON again and again, thinking the same method that turned it on, would turn it off. No dice. So In the end, I just shut the engine off and went inside for the night. This morning truck failed to start and battery gauge showed 11.4 volts. What are the chances the Tazer caused a battery drain all night? Or has my aux most likely finally died and drained the main? Keep in mind, I've had zero weird stuff going on. No remote start failures, no weird gauges or anything else to make me worry about either the Tazer OR batteries till this morning.

I would say the answer is yes since they state it right in there manual but not sure if that is affected by Live Functions are not. But it is possible for the Tazer to drain your battery.

 

[Alpine Warthog]

I got an answer from Tazer. They said that the winch mode is a LIVE feature. Meaning that, its still operating till I shut it off. Since I didn't tap the gas pedal to shut winch mode off before shutting the engine off, It was still pulling power. That explains the power drop.

The good news is that once I got home yesterday afternoon, It started right up, I drove it around 30 minutes to the kid's track meet, was there a couple hours and it started up again just fine. Drove home and it started up again this morning.

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