My motorbike battery keeps going flat for no reason, why?
The battery on my Suzuki keeps going flat within a day, I thought it was a dead cell and replaced it today. Surprise surprise the new one is dead already.
Any Kind of an electrical draw when the bike is off can suck a motorcyle battery dead fast.. Try taking the negative battery terminal off and connecting a voltmeter between the post and the cable.. if it reads voltage then you have a draw somewhere... Can be something like an ignition switch not shutting off all of the way or something like the accessory circuit drawing even when off... start unplugging things one at a time.. when the volt meter drops to zero you found the problem.
I take it you mean after a days running? Then it does sound like a charging problem. You could try jump starting it from your car with the battery flat. Then check the charging. The bike should run OK with a flat batt. If it doesn't then there is a charging prob.
it is below the saddle close to the gasoline tank. The slower you fee the battery the extra suited. Your extra suited off utilising a charger which could fee at a million.25 to 2 amps. the extra suited motor vehicle chargers have a 2 amp putting. Sears sells one with a 2, 10 and 50 amp settings.
u r going to have to check your charging system and your regulator rectifier and if there all good and your stator is good also it might be someting as simple as a bad ground somewhere thats making it pull to much juice
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Check your charging system it should produce 13.5V@2500rpm minimum.if it does then you have a parasitic draw and that can be a real pain to find.
Any Kind of an electrical draw when the bike is off can suck a motorcyle battery dead fast.. Try taking the negative battery terminal off and connecting a voltmeter between the post and the cable.. if it reads voltage then you have a draw somewhere... Can be something like an ignition switch not shutting off all of the way or something like the accessory circuit drawing even when off... start unplugging things one at a time.. when the volt meter drops to zero you found the problem.
I take it you mean after a days running? Then it does sound like a charging problem. You could try jump starting it from your car with the battery flat. Then check the charging. The bike should run OK with a flat batt. If it doesn't then there is a charging prob.
it is below the saddle close to the gasoline tank. The slower you fee the battery the extra suited. Your extra suited off utilising a charger which could fee at a million.25 to 2 amps. the extra suited motor vehicle chargers have a 2 amp putting. Sears sells one with a 2, 10 and 50 amp settings.
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I would guess that there's a faulty charging circuit in your motorbike. The first battery may not be broken if that is the case.
u r going to have to check your charging system and your regulator rectifier and if there all good and your stator is good also it might be someting as simple as a bad ground somewhere thats making it pull to much juice