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Before I bought a SCR950, I also had a FZ-8 and a Super Tenere 1200. The ST is officially the bike I've had the longest out of the 20+ over the years. It's got just over 37k miles and runs great with one exception: It eats batteries. Or at least it's on #4 in 2.5 years. The charging system checks out both hot & cold. The 1st replacement battery was a LiFePO cell that didn't like cold weather and, per the maker, needed to be taken out of the bike if I was going to let it sit more than a few days(!).
Read the fine print, campers and don't do what I did and put a race battery in your street bike at $$$ expense.
Replacement #2 was good until this past November. #3 was a 'net sale that'd not been stored properly and a hassle to send back. #4 is in it now and fine until about 45 minutes ago when I was greeted with the dreaded clack-clack-clack sound of a starter solenoid doing it's best with the starter making exactly zero revolutions.
Off came the side panel for a closer look. I tried the starter again and was met with a brief shower of sparks from the solenoid area!!!
:surprise:
The cable going from the solenoid to the starter was loose. There was carbon build up on the bolt, the cable end and the brass fitting on the solenoid itself. I cleaned and sanded each component and put it back together.
It cranked just fine afterward.
Now I have to wonder if any of those other batteries were actually good after all?
Hi, my name is eddie and I learn some things the hard way.
:grin2:
Read the fine print, campers and don't do what I did and put a race battery in your street bike at $$$ expense.
Replacement #2 was good until this past November. #3 was a 'net sale that'd not been stored properly and a hassle to send back. #4 is in it now and fine until about 45 minutes ago when I was greeted with the dreaded clack-clack-clack sound of a starter solenoid doing it's best with the starter making exactly zero revolutions.
Off came the side panel for a closer look. I tried the starter again and was met with a brief shower of sparks from the solenoid area!!!
:surprise:
The cable going from the solenoid to the starter was loose. There was carbon build up on the bolt, the cable end and the brass fitting on the solenoid itself. I cleaned and sanded each component and put it back together.
It cranked just fine afterward.
Now I have to wonder if any of those other batteries were actually good after all?
Hi, my name is eddie and I learn some things the hard way.
:grin2: