having some issues with the battery wondering if you cool dudes can point me to the right derection on possible reasons im not getting power to the bike so I can research solutions in the archives.
Ride is a gs1100 g 1982.
Ive gone through 2 batteries in a month but maybe first 1 was my fault.
Bought a new ProStart from pepboys.New to riding and bikes in general so i was unfirmiliar with filling acid in and using trickle chargers and all that.So i ended up giving the batt an initial charge of 3 hours on a 2amp charger and did not evenly fill the cells(saw when i later took it off).
After the 3 hour charge i installed,bike started right up and went on to ride it for 3 hours.While talking to a friend for 10 mins with the bike on but engine off,the battery seemed to die.Went home,charged it on the tender for 2 hours and went back for the bike and started right up.10 mins into it while i had trouble changing gears I stalled it and that seemed to kill tha battery and had to push it home.
Got another new battery and this time paid close attention to what i was doing and charged the recommended 12hrs on a new battery.
Bike rode for a good 5 days then again while having trouble changing gears I stalled the bike switching from 1st to 2nd and it died on me again!!
Trickle charger for 3 hours and again,it fixed that and rode the bike home fine.went on 2 more rides just fine.
But today I wanted to go for a quick ride and hitting the start button doesnt fire it up and again...drained battery.
Got a voltmeter.
Charged the battery and got a 12.40 reading while charging so hooked it up to the bike and read the same while off.
When i hit the start button it dropped down to 5 then 3.while cranking.
Tightened the screws on the cables and redid the test.
Same thing happened.
Turned off the bike and slowly the voltage climbed up twards 11-12.
Put the key in and turned to ON without hitting the start button.That quickly dropped the voltage from 12 to 8 then slowly decreased to around 6.
Just turning the ignition to ON drained the voltage.
Lights come on during this but no juice to start it up.
Where do you guys suggest I start?
Battery is on the trickle charger right now again and reading 12.34 and climbing.
ill let it recharge then test again tomorrow
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