So you make sure to give your "second" bike's battery (bought in the last year) a charge every month or so. When it comes to starting the bike, the starter doesn't even turn as the battery's so low, and you realise that your charger was broken. It's on charge now with a working charger. Is there any hope for it or given that it was so low it wouldn't even get close to turning over, should I forget it and get a new one? Even if it starts now, it's no good to me if it only holds a charge for a day etc, moan, try to get it right and still goes pear-shaped yadda... -- TD 2000 GSX1300RX (red and black) 1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red) 1993 Eunos Roadster (supercharged) Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica
If it was *completely* flat to the point where it wouldn't even light the idiot lights, it may well be toast, otherwise it should be fine. If it is toast, it should still be under warranty.
Ooh, so there's hope. The idiot lights /did/ come on - I definitely know where /they/ are. Headlight when I tried it was, er, marginal. I'd better look for the receipt just in case. -- TD 2000 GSX1300RX (red and black) 1991 VFR400R NC30 (black and red) 1993 Eunos Roadster (supercharged) Missing: SOB, Unreliable Italian exotica
The Corvette battery died after 3 years - too flat to charge. It was a Varta with a 5 year guarantee, & they replaced it no problem.
I revived an old battery with some new acid. The battery was good, just kept getting dischaged by the alarm. I was fed up buying new batteries at ~50 a shot, so i'm trying a new tack. Paul.
I revived an old battery with some new acid. The battery was good, just kept getting dischaged by the alarm. I was fed up buying new batteries at ~50 a shot, so i'm trying a new tack. Make sure to hammer it home fully, or the acid wil leak out. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Beav I really wish you'd get your quoting sorted out. -- Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest" I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and go and talk to the Catholics.
How do you do it (**** up your posts that is, not hammer a battery)? You've just made 3 posts in under 3 minutes, 2 of which you quoted properly, but somehow you managed to screw this one up the same way you often do. I am genuinely intrigued!
You grumpy bastard I thought you'd been on holiday ! Oh, the FJ is up on stilts, getting fettled, so i'd love you to spend 15 mins in the shed if poss. http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/5334/strip1s.jpg Pretty please. Ta, Paul.
From personal experience... If you let it lie discharged for longer than a couple of months and the battery is still fairly new, you might get away with it, but I wouldn't trust it as a reliable stand-by. Best to use that battery in the bike for a while to keep it regularly cycled and see if it handles that ok. If it does, then use it as a back-up and make sure it's on proper mainenance charge. The older the battery, the less likely you are to get away with it; to the extent that a battery a few years old just won't tolerate it at all and dies permanently. There are the odd exceptions, of course.
That's piss easy. Sometimes I get the indents, sometimes I don't. Sometimes I noice it when I'm replying, sometimes I don't, but all times I really don't think it's anything to get upset about. Me too. Nothing has changed on the settings in my newsreader (obviously, it's a shite one albeit the most popular one used on here). You don't hammer a battery either, it's the tack one hammers. -- Beav VN 750 Zed 1000 OMF# 19
