What is the average life of a battery?

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12-11-2015, 09:20 AM

Jetfever

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Bone Doc. How about checking the voltage while riding to confirm your charging system is healthy? My FP3 can do this via blue tooth.
Or you could hook up a cheap cigarette lighter volt meter to your battery pigtail.

I have this one in my Piper Pacer, got it at Wall Mart:

http://www.autohausaz.com/search/pro...p_xhoC6Lfw_wcB

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12-11-2015, 10:04 AM

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Originally Posted by FLYING_BURRITO_BROTHER

Mine bones battery is over 6 years old. I ride my bike at least a few times a week so it doesn't sit long periods of time. I have a tender...but only plug it in if I'm going to be away more than a week. I've probably used the tender 3 times in that 6 years.

Well...after 6.5 years, the factory battery took a dump. Not bad at all.

I tried contacting Alien Motion to go with the smaller lithium Ion battery...but they took over a week to respond. So I bought a Yuasa.

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12-11-2015, 03:57 PM

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I got 7.5 years from my stock battery, using a tender 98% of the time when not using the bike. Luckily I was in front of a local motorcycle shop the night it went dead on me. I will replace at 6 years from now on.

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