clmixon
01-15-2006, 07:11 PM
I went out Saturday morning to ride and had a new experience, weak battery. It was my fault, right before the Stagecoach trip I had hard wired the Autocom and having read that it was powered on and off by plugging in the headset I wired it to always on. Further investigation reveals that this is only when it is 9 volt powered.
I decided that it would be a good idea to add a battery tender and went out to get one. My favorite dealer, Honda of Lafayette did not stock the Battery Tender brand, they stocked a Pro Honda Optimate unit for about 2x the price of the Battery Tender at $64.95 but it looks like a good unit so I bought it.
Wired up real easy, seems very well made and has a feature that I had not seen mentioned in the Battery Tender literature, a Deep cycle/ desulfate mode at 22V if it detects a badly discharged battery along with a regular discharge test for 30 min out of every hour once it gets to a full charge. came with both a hardwire plug for the bike and a set of clamps for off the bike.
Hooked it up and it brought the battery up in about 2 hours but never did go into maintain mode. Now I just need to add an outside plug on the carport so I can plug in easily.
Chris :04biker:
I decided that it would be a good idea to add a battery tender and went out to get one. My favorite dealer, Honda of Lafayette did not stock the Battery Tender brand, they stocked a Pro Honda Optimate unit for about 2x the price of the Battery Tender at $64.95 but it looks like a good unit so I bought it.
Wired up real easy, seems very well made and has a feature that I had not seen mentioned in the Battery Tender literature, a Deep cycle/ desulfate mode at 22V if it detects a badly discharged battery along with a regular discharge test for 30 min out of every hour once it gets to a full charge. came with both a hardwire plug for the bike and a set of clamps for off the bike.
Hooked it up and it brought the battery up in about 2 hours but never did go into maintain mode. Now I just need to add an outside plug on the carport so I can plug in easily.
Chris :04biker: