Parasitic Battery Drain source found: Now what? Options

[moneysmarts]

Long-time- no-post!
Hi all.
Just took the car out of storage from winter, looking forward to driving.
My new battery keeps draining overnight.
So I tapped in-line my multimeter and started pulling fuses and relays to locate the source.
When I pulled the alternator wiring harness plug from the relay board, the volts/amps dropped to zero. Bingo!
But now what do I do? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif) Do I have a bad alternator or can I diagnose further?
Thanks for the help.
I'd hate to have to struggle to replace that bad boy for nothing.
Steve

[moneysmarts]

Rich:
Just to refresh what I did...
When I pulled the 3-wire alt. plug from the relay tray, my amp draw stopped.
The I reinserted the plug, and disconnected the hot wire from the alt (attached to the starter solonoid). That also made my amp draw go away.
Should I do some other tests?

[r_towle]

Rich:
Just to refresh what I did...
When I pulled the 3-wire alt. plug from the relay tray, my amp draw stopped.
The I reinserted the plug, and disconnected the hot wire from the alt (attached to the starter solonoid). That also made my amp draw go away.
Should I do some other tests?

put it back in...unplug the lead at the starter solenoid.
Also, do you have the logic circuit (looks like a relay) under the passenger seat?
Two big yellow wires (yellow and yellow with red stripe)

And , where oh where does the reverse light switch get its power from?
Seems like it may be part of that hot lead...its in the same area.
Reverse light switch gets stuck...power draw....dunno.

Rich

[messix]

Rich:
Just to refresh what I did...
When I pulled the 3-wire alt. plug from the relay tray, my amp draw stopped.
The I reinserted the plug, and disconnected the hot wire from the alt (attached to the starter solonoid). That also made my amp draw go away.
Should I do some other tests?

put it back in...unplug the lead at the starter solenoid.
Also, do you have the logic circuit (looks like a relay) under the passenger seat?
Two big yellow wires (yellow and yellow with red stripe)

And , where oh where does the reverse light switch get its power from?
Seems like it may be part of that hot lead...its in the same area.
Reverse light switch gets stuck...power draw....dunno.

Rich

reverse light is switched on the key on can't be that.

inspect the wire from the alt to the starter, could be damaged just bad enough to allow a small high resistance short, corrosion can cause high resistance shorts [draws] that when cleaned up resolve issues.