Re: [St] Hmm... toasty! ...and battery woes

[brettwilson21@xxxxxxx]

Having followed this thread I have to say I agree that it sounds like a 
case of a dying battery. If you're habitually doing short rides, it 
certainly wont be doing your battery any favours. As has been 
mentioned, fuel injected bikes dont like low batteries.

I recently replaced the original battery in my 05 ST. I wanted to get 
to 60k kms with it and I was also being cheap and lazy, so I put it on 
charge every night when I realised it wasnt holding a full charge. I 
have an old Arlec charger that is a bit hot at 4.5amps, but it gave me 
another three months out of the battery.

I realised it was time to cough up when the bike was not only "lazy" 
and hard to start, but it also ran rough and coughed etc. With a fresh 
battery all was good again.

Brett.

-----Original Message-----
From: Bil Swartz <bil@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: ST@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 10:21 am
Subject: Re: [St] Hmm... toasty! ...and battery woes

Rupert Galea wrote:

> The ones I have seen people use are
> http://www.digitalmeter.com/

That little Datel is the shiznit, easy to wire and you can mount it 
with some
double-sided tape along any side of it to "hang" it from a surface in 
the
cockpit area as I did with The Boss's viffer.  It was very good at 
showing us
the impending regulator/rectifier failure on her bike - that's why I 
installed it.

Eoin, those short rides/commutes probably aren't doing your bike or 
battery any
favors, do you have a Battery Tender Junior or similar device to plug 
in when
you get home?

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