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29-10-2006, 08:02am
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Quote:like i said i took the bike out a few times with the brand new battery and then a few days into riding it didn't have enought juice to turn over and i had to bump start it. the battery was properly charged when i put it in. any ideas were to start? battery isn't getting recharged or what?
1. Did YOU FULLY charge the battery prior to installing it?
2. What battery is it?
If it's a YTZ14S, the failure you are experiencing is all too commonplace. YTZ14S batteries totally suck. Some guys get lucky and get a good one, but they have an extraordinarily high failure rate from brand new, as they are AGM type batteries and must be activated upon their production. This means they will sit in stock slowly but surely discharging and begin the sulfating process that renders them virtually useless for cranking the engine. The guys that have received a good YTZ14S simply got one that hadn't been sitting in stock for very long.
My brand new YTZ14S battery did the very same thing and I FULLY charged the bitch prior to using it, but after an hour of riding, it wouldn't crank the engine a single revolution. I had to pop-start my bike. As soon as I replaced it with a new OEM YT12A-BS battery, all was fine, as I knew it would be, as I do not have charging system issues.
P.S. I will NEVER purchase another YTZ14S battery. They should be "black-listed". <i></i>
Quote:like i said i took the bike out a few times with the brand new battery and then a few days into riding it didn't have enought juice to turn over and i had to bump start it. the battery was properly charged when i put it in. any ideas were to start? battery isn't getting recharged or what?
1. Did YOU FULLY charge the battery prior to installing it?
2. What battery is it?
If it's a YTZ14S, the failure you are experiencing is all too commonplace. YTZ14S batteries totally suck. Some guys get lucky and get a good one, but they have an extraordinarily high failure rate from brand new, as they are AGM type batteries and must be activated upon their production. This means they will sit in stock slowly but surely discharging and begin the sulfating process that renders them virtually useless for cranking the engine. The guys that have received a good YTZ14S simply got one that hadn't been sitting in stock for very long.
My brand new YTZ14S battery did the very same thing and I FULLY charged the bitch prior to using it, but after an hour of riding, it wouldn't crank the engine a single revolution. I had to pop-start my bike. As soon as I replaced it with a new OEM YT12A-BS battery, all was fine, as I knew it would be, as I do not have charging system issues.
P.S. I will NEVER purchase another YTZ14S battery. They should be "black-listed". <i></i>