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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #15 - 02/01/10 at 03:20:31 Play around with your battery if you must,But you are just shorting the life of it. Best way to check a battery is to start the motorcycle if it turns over slow it needs to be charged,Its no different than a car.Do you dole over your car battery all the time.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: battery charger Reply #16 - 02/01/10 at 04:16:37 I have a small 7Ah battery so I hook it up to a regular car charger for 3-4 hours like once a month. Before the first crank this spring I will do the same. I am confident it will crank up. If it was the stock battery - I wouldn't really care that much.
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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #17 - 02/01/10 at 06:32:42 bill67 wrote on 02/01/10 at 03:20:31: Do you dole over your car battery all the time. All the time it's hooked to the charger, yes. I'd rather not have it release an excessive amount of hydrogen and cause an explosion or fire. But do tell how keeping a lead-acid battery topped up shortens its life.
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rl153 Serious Thumper Offline S40 Just right! Posts: 906 Bloomfield,CT Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #18 - 02/01/10 at 07:36:27 I think I'm going to buy a new battery charger . They have a 1.5 amp 3 stage charger /tender at harbor freight for $19.99. Is this an ideal charger?
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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #19 - 02/01/10 at 07:55:26 Personally I would not trust a HF battery charger.. just spend another 5 bucks and get a 4-stage charger from Deltran here. Buy a pack of gum or something to get the order to $25 for free shipping.
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Reply #20 - 02/01/10 at 08:11:00

Boule’tard wrote on 02/01/10 at 06:32:42:

bill67 wrote on 02/01/10 at 03:20:31:

Do you dole over your car battery all the time.

All the time it's hooked to the charger, yes. I'd rather not have it release an excessive amount of hydrogen and cause an explosion or fire.

But do tell how keeping a lead-acid battery topped up shortens its life.

I wondered why my garage burns down every couples months and I have to rebuild it,Now I know,thanks for info. Roll Eyes

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Boule’tard Serious Thumper ModSquad Offline Master of the Obvious Posts: 1620 Austin TX Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #21 - 02/01/10 at 08:26:00 bill67 wrote on 02/01/10 at 08:11:00: I wondered why my garage burns down every couples months and I have to rebuild it,Now I know,thanks for info. Just because it doesn't happen with your particular rig doesn't mean it can't HAPPEN, smartass.
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rl153 Serious Thumper Offline S40 Just right! Posts: 906 Bloomfield,CT Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #22 - 02/01/10 at 08:29:59 I think my older charger was starting to burn up .I bought the deltran .Thanks for your advice Boultard.
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bill67 Serious Thumper Offline old tired Posts: 8517 genoa city wisconsin Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #23 - 02/01/10 at 09:02:10 Boule’tard wrote on 02/01/10 at 08:26:00: bill67 wrote on 02/01/10 at 08:11:00: I wondered why my garage burns down every couples months and I have to rebuild it,Now I know,thanks for info. Just because it doesn't happen with your particular rig doesn't mean it can't HAPPEN, smartass. Better to be a smart ass than dumb ass
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Reply #24 - 02/01/10 at 09:22:50

bill67 wrote on 02/01/10 at 09:02:10:

Better to be a smart ass than dumb ass

Guilty as "charged" huh huh huh. Which is why I stay humble and vigorously try to get to the bottom of things, instead of just spouting sarcastic one-liners that don't help anyone. And still no explanation of how keeping batteries topped up harms them? Toodles. Lips Sealed

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babyhog Serious Thumper Offline Find a Cure for Breast Cancer! NOW!! Posts: 3802 WV Gender:	Re: battery charger Reply #25 - 02/01/10 at 09:46:11 Now, now boys, to opposite corners you go! Don't make me get out the paddle.
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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: battery charger Reply #26 - 02/01/10 at 10:22:35 Momma is here. Leave brother's battery charger alone! Hi babyhog. And let me elaborate a little - I personally never seen a good bike battery drawing more than 3A. Even that only for few initial minutes.
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Reply #27 - 02/01/10 at 10:53:46

Boule'tard, according to Wikipedia, leaving a battery on float charge for long periods can result in internal corrosion. I think you are right that a lead-acid battery should be stored as fully charged as practical to reduce sulphation on the plates. All rechargeable batteries have some internal self-discharge, and that self-discharge tends to get worse as the battery gets older. Low temperatures reduce the self-discharge, and by a happy coincidence low temperatures are most of the reason motorcycles get stored away for months at a time. Those low temperatures help the battery retain its charge.

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dasch Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com Rocks! Posts: 1137	Re: battery charger Reply #28 - 02/01/10 at 11:00:29 ?? I read a million times output capacity drops with temperature. I experienced it a few times too. That is a totally new theory to me.
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Reply #29 - 02/01/10 at 11:37:59

Charon, thanks for the clarification. By the set-and-forget I mean leaving the battery on float charge for a couple days, or maximum a week at a time, and would probably not trust the battery to be "tended" all winter by any type of charger.

Dasch, I believe what Charon is getting at is, the cold cranking amps that a battery can put out decrease with temperature, which would make one believe it is almost discharged.. but in fact, the rate of discharge is greater during hot weather than cold weather. Cold weather makes them seem dead (by loss of cranking amps) but hot weather actually kills them faster.

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