Bandit Alley
GENERAL MOTORCYCLE FORUMS => GENERAL MECHANICAL & TECHNICAL => Topic started by: android12 on February 22, 2012, 09:37:54 PM
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Anyone tried or found a deep cycle battery like an optima? If so what price? I dont use a trickle charger and just replace mine about every 2 and half years. I dont get any kind of warning like slow start when its going south, so replacing beats getting stranded.
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Sorry, I'm still using the battery my bike came with -- I just remove it every winter, hook it up for 6 hrs a month to the $10 1A charger I found at Canadian Tire, and away we go.
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Deep cycle batteries aren't really designed to handle the kind of duty they'd see as a standard service battery. They are designed for long and/or hard draw downs before a recharge, not a quick draw from a starter and a constant trickle of charge/discharge cycles.
Buy yourself an inexpensive trickle charger. It'll cost less than a deep cycle battery, too. :bandit:
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Deep Cycle batteries are for RVs, boats & golf carts.
Cold Cranking Amp batteries are for cars & motorcycles
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Deep Cycle batteries are for RVs, boats & golf carts.
And for RV's they're used to run the DC "home" circuits. They have a standard battery for the "vehicle" side of things. Same thing for boats big enough to have that need. Smaller ones use them for electric motors.