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New battery charge questions

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Has anyone had any luck charging a new battery by just putting it on the bike and charging it using your alternator power? I don't have a trickle charger or small battery charger so this seems like a good alternative but I want suggestions before I ruin my brand new battery. Any suggestions/info on this would help...quite a newbie here. Thanks!
 
Best way is to hook it to a battery tender and give it a good charge before you put it in the bike. I do it that way and it works great.

Or...you can see if a local shop can charge it for you.
 
The biggest problem with installing it and running the bike to charge it is that the first thing you are going to do is hit it with a large DIScharge when you start the bike. That will tend to lock the battery at that state of charge.

Another problem is that is needs to charge at a LOW rate for several hours. That means idling the engine for several hours. Just running the bike down the road is actually too high a charge rate for the initial charge.

Do yourself and your battery a favor, go to Wal-Mart, get a Schumacher battery maintainer for about $20.

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