You could invest into a lithium battery which seems to be better but I dont know if they last longer but they seem to be a favorable choiceSent via the Samsung Galaxy S7 edge, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message --------From: Drew Gormley <[email protected]> Date: 10/19/20 8:25 PM (GMT-06:00) To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Nighthawk Lovers] Battery wont charge after a short- what did I break? Yeah, A battery goes stale (sulfates) if it isn't used frequently. The charging/discharging keeps it alive. If it sits for too long it can't be effectively desulfated ever again.New one is in order.On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 9:24 AM Drew Gormley <[email protected]> wrote:On Tue, Oct 20, 2020 at 6:17 AM Tombo <[email protected]> wrote:that makes sense I had to buy this battery when I first got the bike 4 years ago and it was a pain to track down the right model with the right posts. getting something more commercially available sounds like a good upgrade, thoughOn Friday, October 16, 2020 at 11:52:52 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:Hey man, yeah, welcome to buying a battery for a nighthawk. Kind of a right of passage.There's an agm that I got at walmart that is a few cm's off the correct dimension of the lead acid correct size. It is a bit wide and sticks out of the battery box, but was a good choice. Other than a few10 minute trickle charger sessions to top her off, it's been a perfect battery. I brought the old batt there to side by side the comparison. Once you have good volts, and you know your fuses are all good, you can check all the connections. Polish them up with a wire brush to expose fresh metal, and put dielectric grease where it need to be to protectkey places from corrosion, which on these old bikes is a fact of life.Nothing you can't sort out in an after noon with a pot of coffee nearby. Good luck!On Sat, Oct 17, 2020 at 8:30 AM Graham Rogers <[email protected]> wrote:No voltage at all?On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 8:06 PM Thomas Ware <[email protected]> wrote:So the battery isn’t reading any voltage.. I’m measuring post to post, correct? There is some fluid surrounding the caps and some more that came out of the overflow.. and oxidized my center stand a bit :-/ I can hear the fluid bubbling inside the battery when I turn the key. All fuses in the box on the handlebars look good but I didn’t try to pass any current through them. I couldn’t get any reading off of them either. Is my battery dead? I’ve got more electrolyte fluid and could try to refill it.On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 10:58:27 PM UTC-4 [email protected] wrote:Check the fuses, under the plate in the center of the handlebars beneath the displayOn Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 10:54 AM Tombo <[email protected]> wrote:Hey y'all I was trying to jumpstart my 700S and ended up shorting out the positive+negative posts on the battery. The trickle charger that is in line now won't charge the battery (blinks red).There is enough juice for the starter to turn over once or twice, so it's still outputting, but it's also still dead. What did I break? Thanks
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