Has anyone had any luck charging a new battery by just putting it on the bike and charging it using your alternator power? I don't have a trickle charger or small battery charger so this seems like a good alternative but I want suggestions before I ruin my brand new battery. Any suggestions/info on this would help...quite a newbie here. Thanks!
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What type of battery?
Lead/acid
Gel
AGM -
Best way is to hook it to a battery tender and give it a good charge before you put it in the bike. I do it that way and it works great.
Or...you can see if a local shop can charge it for you.Comment
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The biggest problem with installing it and running the bike to charge it is that the first thing you are going to do is hit it with a large DIScharge when you start the bike. That will tend to lock the battery at that state of charge.
Another problem is that is needs to charge at a LOW rate for several hours. That means idling the engine for several hours. Just running the bike down the road is actually too high a charge rate for the initial charge.
Do yourself and your battery a favor, go to Wal-Mart, get a Schumacher battery maintainer for about $20.
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