After installing a National Luna Intelligent Solenoid and Battery monitor, I quickly noticed that my primary battery was draining noticeably overnight.
I connected an EVM and found I had a parasitic drain of ~130mA. The solenoid+monitor are responsible for about 40mA of that, which left me with 90 mA to account for.
Once I started pulling fuses I noticed the OBD fuse was drawing ~30mA. I had Automatic plugged in under my steering column. Removing it removed this drain.
Automatic
claims to only draw 5.5mA but that some vehicles enter "diagnostic mode" by default the second anything is plugged into OBD-II. Is that the case with our 3rd gen 4Runners? If it is the case, does being in "diagnostic" mode have any other deleterious effects on gas mileage, etc?
EDIT: writing this, I'm realizing also that the Automatic dongle might be woken up for a certain time period after connecting the battery, and that I probably need to give it some time to "go to sleep" after putting the EVM in series.