Mark G
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| posted on 7/7/08 at 09:43 PM |
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BEC Battery
I'm looking to buy a battery for my fireblade powered indy build. Looking on ebay I've found
THIS.
Will it be up to the job? I would assume so but I don't want to spend the money just to find out that its not.
Many thanks
Mark.
Also, I figured that I'd need a trickle charger so can anyone tell me any reason
THIS wouldn't be up to the job?
[Edited on 7/7/08 by Mark G]
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Dangle_kt
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| posted on 7/7/08 at 09:56 PM |
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persoanlly I;d only trust a decent battery in my car, its not worth getting stuck in the middle of no-where to save £20 IMO.
That trickle charger doesn't look like it switche itself off when the battery is full, so it will keep pumping power in, possibley making the
battery boil. I have used optimate and can recommend them as very effective and reliable. Really is hassle free with one of them.
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mark chandler
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| posted on 7/7/08 at 10:06 PM |
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Thats all I have in mine and its fine.
**** warning **** Warning*****
Do not use a bigger battery that includes the special super light gel batteries or car type or you will burn out your charging circuit, more
specifically the three phase coils inside the engine if you are unlucky.
You can expect the regulator to fail if you give it a hard stare if its the standard honda item, most people upgrade these.
Regards Mark
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Mark G
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| posted on 7/7/08 at 10:13 PM |
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I'm just looking on The Battery Shop They're doing free delivery on bike batteries at the mo but I can't work out from the guide
where it says what battery I need.
I think I may just leave this until tomorrow as my eyes are closing.
Cheers all, Sleep well.
Mark.
[Edited on 7/7/08 by Mark G]
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simoto
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| posted on 7/7/08 at 11:19 PM |
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I Have bought a YB 12(slightly more umph than stock 919 blade i think) to compensate for the added fuel pump and a couple of extra lights. The reg rec
I have inherited appears to be uprated and innitially at least i wont be bothering with reverse.
Given that, am i on the right track batterry wise? Anyone with more experience care to comment , please?
striker/blade now complete, thanks to all on this site.
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BenB
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| posted on 8/7/08 at 07:31 AM |
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The fuel pump and extra lights really don't make a difference to the battery... the battery is really only used to start the engine, from then
on it's the alternator running.
So there's no reason why a standard bike battery will not suffice and as already mentioned a bigger battery may knacker the regulator.
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MikeCapon
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| posted on 8/7/08 at 10:43 AM |
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Most of the time the discussions on this forum are very enlightening for me. This one however leaves me with two questions.
1 Why will a battery with a larger capacity damage the charging system?
2 What choices apart from the standard Honda regulator are there? I know that these are weak but in all the time I've been around bikes,
I've never seen a source of uprated regulators. A few poor copies maybe but never anything better.
As a footnote I was horrifed a while back to lift the seat on a Honda Hornet and see "Ducati Electronica" on the regulator. Honda
regulators are very average... Ducati however were the worst in the world..
www.shock-factory.co.uk
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simoto
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| posted on 8/7/08 at 10:53 AM |
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Thanks for answering my question and sorry to hijack the thread, I too have been around bikes a long time but this is all new to me.
Cheers again.
striker/blade now complete, thanks to all on this site.
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gixermark
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| posted on 8/7/08 at 11:16 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by MikeCapon
2 What choices apart from the standard Honda regulator are there?
i think the std regulator on the carb'd blades is not as 'strong' or possibly are affected more with teh build up of eat asociated
with being in a car.... ?
i think the normal upgrade is the CBR1000rr unit ?? ANdy at AB knows for sure...
Mark.
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mark chandler
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| posted on 12/7/08 at 11:07 PM |
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Hello Mike
A big battery can be charged at a much higher rate, typically 60 amps, big cars have 125amp amp alternators and the battery will charge at this very
high rate.
A discharged battery will present a very low resistance to the alternator, a high current load follows.
The windings on bikes cannot take this load so tend to either burn out or destroy the regulators.
Bikes tend to have three phase alternators, three yellow wires into the rectifier and red and black out. All you need to do is hunt on Ebay for one
thats 12v's off a big bike and has some decent cooling fins, then pay £5.
Regards Mark
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