18-08-13, 11:22 AM
Hi guys,
First post on this forum, so I should probably say hello too! I am riding an '05 FZ1 that I got last year. Did a longish trip out to Bosnia and back but have really not had much bike time this year.
When I got it the bike was on its original battery (I think), and earlier this year just before summer the battery was pretty dead. I tried charging it with my optimate, but it was not having any of it. So I replaced the battery with a new MotoBatt (MBTX9U) and all seemed fine, it started first time and I went for a short ride. Now I left the bike for some time (a couple of months) and when I tried to start it that battery was dead too, so I charged it overnight but in the morning it did not start.
To cut a long story short, I wheeled the bike into the shed, plugged in the optimate and forgot about it for another month or so... tried starting it again yesterday but not much joy initially. After a bit of a charge it did start last night, and I let it run a bit and tried starting it a few times and it was ok. I then left it overnight without being charged as I wanted to see how it would last overnight. This morning it will not start again.
Symptoms are as follows:
I want to go on a trip to Belgium this coming weekend, and the last thing I need is a dodgy battery for the trip.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what could be the problem? One thing I should probably mention is that my battery is installed flipped on its side, this was the only way I could get it to fit in the space under the seat. Is this correct?
cheers
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First post on this forum, so I should probably say hello too! I am riding an '05 FZ1 that I got last year. Did a longish trip out to Bosnia and back but have really not had much bike time this year.
When I got it the bike was on its original battery (I think), and earlier this year just before summer the battery was pretty dead. I tried charging it with my optimate, but it was not having any of it. So I replaced the battery with a new MotoBatt (MBTX9U) and all seemed fine, it started first time and I went for a short ride. Now I left the bike for some time (a couple of months) and when I tried to start it that battery was dead too, so I charged it overnight but in the morning it did not start.
To cut a long story short, I wheeled the bike into the shed, plugged in the optimate and forgot about it for another month or so... tried starting it again yesterday but not much joy initially. After a bit of a charge it did start last night, and I let it run a bit and tried starting it a few times and it was ok. I then left it overnight without being charged as I wanted to see how it would last overnight. This morning it will not start again.
Symptoms are as follows:
- [/size]the optimate shows it full charged, with no current being added
- [/size]I have verified this with a multimeter
- [/size]when I try and crank it the voltage just dies completely, as though it cannot supply enough current
- [/size]this lack of voltage causes the electronics to shut down which obviously does not aid the sparking at all! :b
- [/size]there is strange clicking from the tail, like a relay rapidly opening and closing (this may be from the alarm, I am not sure)
I want to go on a trip to Belgium this coming weekend, and the last thing I need is a dodgy battery for the trip.
Does anybody have any suggestions as to what could be the problem? One thing I should probably mention is that my battery is installed flipped on its side, this was the only way I could get it to fit in the space under the seat. Is this correct?
cheers
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