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 Post subject: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 9:24 pm 
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Yesterday off to town on a 230crf took the battery charger off , started first time, stop at a garage , went to re start it battery was as dead as a dodo! Put a volt meater on it 0v.fitted new one all ok. Got home shook it went up too 13.3v broke plates ?


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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:21 pm 
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Greetings,

Unlikely to be broken plates but they could have buckled causing the paste to fall off and short across the cells, either way it is a deceased parrot :? Check the rate at which your charger operates, is it an old type car charger or a modern one? Modern batteries require the new 'computerised' chargers such as the Optimate5 or even newer model.

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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Sun Jan 17, 2016 11:31 pm 
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Hi Dick gel batteries do tend to die instantly from experience mine went from restarting ok on trail to dead next press of starter, you only know when you hit start as CRF 230 will run of it alternator once running.
sounds like something making and breaking inside battery either way bin it. If you measure 13.3 with a meter what happens if you put a load on it, you can use a 12v halogen headlamp bulb to test it.


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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 10:58 pm 
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I'm using a optimal 3, voltage went down to 8.5v will bin.allways put dates on my battery's when new get rid after 3 years?


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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 7:26 am 
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I found that batteries on a constant trickle charger,don't last as long.
They don't like it up em !

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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:03 am 
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The battery on my 950 lasted 7 years on an Optimate every winter. No point in the riding season as it's being used regularly.
If it's a proper Battery Conditioner, they seem to last for much longer IMHO.

Even though I only ride every few weeks, I've only had to charge the 400 battery when I've accidentally flattened it.

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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:34 am 
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The cat didn't like being charged either !

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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:57 am 
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Damn - no like button :D

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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
PostPosted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:52 pm 
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Once had a dealer send a diagnostic computer back saying it had a flat battery, I am then angrily unpacking it think why did they not just recharge it?
When unpacked the machine that had been six inches in depth was now two inches thick with two truck tyre prints on the ally casing.
They were correct the battery was flat and everything else around it :lol: :lol:


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 Post subject: Re: Flat battery!
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:lol:

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