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Posted by Dennis Lee Bieber on March 29, 2008, 3:49 pm
the following in alt.scooter:
> A fully charged batt that takes a dead drain down is really hard to
> recover, hell the shop manual says if the batt is down to 12v, discard
> it......at $250/dealer a pop, I'll be looking for generic brands, since this
> GS and Yuasa main brands aren't much better for X2 the price......It's worth
> a shot anyway....Yeah I tried all kinds of charging instruments...
>
That's either a massive battery, or you are including shop labor
rates (which run $90/hour where I am).
I just replaced the battery in my Aprilia Scarabeo 500 (it actually
went bad Oct/Nov of 2006, after I'd had the machine about 5 months, but
putting it on my old 2/12/70 charger (in 2A mode, of course) a few times
recovered it enough to make it through the summer. Cost me about $60 and
24hours on my charger. Not sure who made it, the shop didn't carry Yuasa
[original was a yb14, I seem to recall].
After frying the charger trying to start my Jeep last year (charger
was 20+ years old; the 70A start circuit was good on my prior
low-compression 4cyl turbo, but not on the higher compression
long-stroke inline 6 of the Jeep), I picked up a "smart" 2/12-30/80
charger. This one includes an automatic desulfation mode (on connection
it does a short quick charge -- 30/60 secs, then measures fall off; if
it concludes the battery is sulfated, it brings the voltage up to 15V in
pulses... Unfortunately, this January the desulfate mode would run
90mins on the dung beetle and give up saying the battery is hopeless).
I'm probably going to connect the charger tomorrow, just to ensure
I'm not building up another sulfated condition -- the dung beetle
doesn't charge when stuck at a traffic signal, and even cruise with
low-beam only peaks at 13.8V; cruise with high-beam averages 14.0,
peaking at 14.1V
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com wulfraed@bestiaria.com
HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
(Bestiaria Support Staff: web-asst@bestiaria.com)
HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/
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Posted by Robert LaCasse on March 29, 2008, 11:20 pm
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:49:55 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber
|>> a shot anyway....Yeah I tried all kinds of charging instruments...
|>>
|> That's either a massive battery, or you are including shop labor
|>rates (which run $90/hour where I am).
I bought the GT9B-4 12v/8amp at the dealer were I bought the Yamy
Majesty, thinking that since they are a dealer, they should have a pipeline
to a good M/C battery dealer as far as quality is concerned......
I think I'll be looking at the local battery dealers next time, if
their prices match the net prices....although but then there are quality
rated batches from the same factory, like there are refurbishes
competitors...
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National Association of Assault Research
Soul Yamaha Majesty400 2005, Grey, Night Rider!
(http://*remove*boblacasse.150.com/scooter.html)
http://*remove*pages.istar.ca/~vampire/YamyMajesty400.jpg
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Posted by Dennis Lee Bieber on March 30, 2008, 12:19 am
declaimed the following in alt.scooter:
> I bought the GT9B-4 12v/8amp at the dealer were I bought the Yamy
> Majesty, thinking that since they are a dealer, they should have a pipeline
> to a good M/C battery dealer as far as quality is concerned......
>
My condolences... 8AH? The $60 battery I bought is a 14AH...
Though in the dung beetle, I'm happy that it shows 12.2V after
resting overnight (the Aprilia "trip computer" includes a voltage
read-out -- along with a lap timer, miles to next service, ambient temp,
average&peak MPH, and MPG <G>)
I picked up the battery at the local Suzuki (hmm, Kawasaki too I
think) dealer -- my Aprilia dealer in 45miles away.
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Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber KD6MOG
wlfraed@ix.netcom.com wulfraed@bestiaria.com
HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
(Bestiaria Support Staff: web-asst@bestiaria.com)
HTTP://www.bestiaria.com/
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Posted by Bob on April 8, 2008, 3:51 am
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:19:32 -0700, Dennis Lee Bieber
|>declaimed the following in alt.scooter:
|>
|>
|>> I bought the GT9B-4 12v/8amp at the dealer were I bought the Yamy
|>> Majesty, thinking that since they are a dealer, they should have a pipeline
|>> to a good M/C battery dealer as far as quality is concerned......
|>>
|> My condolences... 8AH? The $60 battery I bought is a 14AH...
|>
|> Though in the dung beetle, I'm happy that it shows 12.2V after
|>resting overnight (the Aprilia "trip computer" includes a voltage
|>read-out -- along with a lap timer, miles to next service, ambient temp,
|>average&peak MPH, and MPG <G>)
|>
|> I picked up the battery at the local Suzuki (hmm, Kawasaki too I
|>think) dealer -- my Aprilia dealer in 45miles away.
I found one aftermarket for $160.00 and then a new supplier for
$100.00, but in these cases, you get what you pay for + paying for the
"name"....
In a Majesty 400, there are lots of procedure "panels" to change and
even "on the fly" charge a battery....so if I get a cheapo battery, I'll
have to top it of at least once a month whether the Alternator is working
tops or not, so some of those aftermarket Batts disclose....
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Triad Productions-FantallaŠ~EZine~ParaNovel
National Association of Assault Research
WWWeb>> http://boblacasse.150m. com
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