I almost posted this in RipnSht's thread, since he's ben talking about them, but realized as I was writing it that I didn't want to hijack him, so I'm posting it separately instead...
I was just looking at the Ballistic Batteries online last night. Their 4-cell Lithium Ion battery looks interesting for sure. Certainly smaller than anything else, but then it gives you much lower cold cranking amps....
I was originally looking at the Mini-Battery install thread:
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?num=1259644714I really want to mount my battery in this spot.
He's using a Yuasa, YTZ7S: that has 130cca.
It's 4.6 lbs, and about $100 on Fleabay.
Ballistic 4-cell has 135cca; it's tiny and not too expensive ($105) ... but is it strong enough?
(The replacement stock batteries have 210-220cca, depending on where I look. I'm not sure what the original factory batteries were since these all claim to be stronger than and outperform the stock battery.)
RipnSht's 8-cell Antigravity battery has 240cca, but it's almost $200.
Ballistic has an 8-cell with 275cca for $142.95. (it's just slightly bigger, slightly heavier than the Antigravity.)
Here's my question...
If the YTZ7S with 130 Cold Cranking Amps is enough to start and run the bike well, then the Ballistic 4-cell battery, with 135cca should work just as well, right? It's super-tiny and around the same price, so it seems like a much better deal, but what do you guys think?
Too good to be true?
If anyone has any experience with Ballistic's batteries, I'd love to hear from you...