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Routy wrote on 08/14/11 at 14:49:48:arteacher wrote on 08/13/11 at 06:12:33:Bike wouldn't start. Let it sit for 15 min- started right up. What some have missed here, is that the battery was nowhere close to stone dead. If a battery is stone dead, no amount of time setting is it going to start the bike. This is true.
There are three types of "dead" batteries. 1. Broken -- will never work again (sulfated plates, internal short, no electrolyte (sulfuric acid solution), etc.). The bike won’t even click when you try to start it. No lights will come on. 2. Fully depleted -- You parked your bike, left the lights (or ignition on), and went away to visit your girlfriend in Uzbekistan for a week. The bike won’t even click when you try to start it. No lights will come on. 3. Seems to be depleted -- You parked your bike, left the ignition on, went to a movie ("P.S. I Love You" (you were trying to get in touch with your feminine side)), came out 2.5 hours later, and the battery acted dead when you tried to start it. You turn off the key, and stomp around, moaning about how stupid the engineers were to design a bike like that. Then you get back on after 15 minutes and just for old times’ sake, hit the starter. Vrooom. It started slow, but worked. What happened was the electrolyte nearest the cells became depleted. When you let it sit for a while while you were throwing your tantrum, the depleted electrolyte mixed with the more potent solution and the battery sort of charged itself a little. The battery probably wasn’t fully discharged, it just seemed that way right after you tried to start it the first time after spending so much ranting about the "stupid engineering" design.
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