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Posted by BryanUT on July 2, 2009, 7:37 pm
 
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That is the cost I paid for leaving the key in the on position over
night.  Killed the battery, after 36 hours on the battery tender it
failed to take on any charge.

So I bought a new battery.  I'll never make that mistake again.  Aside
from the expense, replacing the battery is pain.  I don't know how
guys with big / fat fingers do it.

And now it's raining.  I'll hope for better weather tomorrow, I have
the day off.

Posted by Rob Kleinschmidt on July 2, 2009, 7:51 pm
 
Supposedly, the battery tender will not charge a totally
dead battery. Perhaps you would have done better with
a less intelligent charger. Either that or at least produced
a memorable explosion.

http://forums.13x.com/archive/index.php/t-129570.html

Posted by Mark Olson on July 2, 2009, 8:13 pm
 Rob Kleinschmidt wrote:

Yep.  I completely flattened the battery on my SV at least four times
by leaving the heated grips on.  I just either put the stone age car
battery charger on it for a few hours or jumped it from the car and
rode it.  According to all conventional wisdom that should have killed
that battery stone dead but it lasted fine until I sold it last year,
so 7 years + isn't too bad.  For all their supposed superiority I can't
really see the point of a battery tender, a cheap automatic charger
at Wal-Mart costs less and delivers more amps and works fine with bike
batteries.  During the winter I might or might not bother hooking up
a charger, the sealed batteries just don't self-discharge, especially
when it's cold.  Conventional batteries only need a jolt every couple
of weeks.  What some people do is hook their battery charger up to
the light bulb socket in their garage door opener- that way it gets
maybe 5 to 10 minutes of charging per day which is plenty.




Posted by Stephen! on July 2, 2009, 11:41 pm
 

  Last Novemeber I took the wet cell battery out of the bike and stuck it
in the utility room in the house.  This spring I reinstalled it and started
the bike.  No tending, no charging, no jumping, no nothin'...

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Posted by TOG@Toil on July 3, 2009, 5:18 am
 

What a bloody brilliant idea.

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