CBR600f4i battery problems?

Hi,

Went overseas for 5 months and bike stood idle at home. When I came back I tried to start it and obviously it was dead due to
uncharged battery. I went to jump start it from the car and the bike started fine, HOWEVER, as soon as I removed the jumper leads,
the bike cuts out and switches off. I tried leaving the jumper cables on to charge the battery for 15 mins or so but same problem.

I do have a power commander installed if this would affect anything..

Is this normal ? Is it just a dead battery ?

TIA

 

Looks like you have a dead battery.
Umm, you can't charge a battery with jumper leads. You stand a good chance
of blowing it up though.

Theo

 

Is threre any fluid in it?

Sounds knackered to me...

 

It's probably rooted. You could try a small battery charger (one of
those cheapies
from K-Mart of supercheap would do), if it charges it isn't rooted if it
doesn't charge then it is rooted.

G-S

 

How will he know?

Theo

 

<snip>

There you go...the problem in one.

Motorbikes that aren't used go off... sometimes bang sometimes whisper.

You _should_ have found someone to look after and bike-sit for you
before you buggered off.

Yes. Probably.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

buggered battery

prob got a dead cell

 

lead acid batteries dont like being left flat.

Get a new battery then get a battery tender (charger trickle charger
SPECIFICALLY for motorycle size batteries...)..around $80 from Dick Smith
for example.

 

Oh.... pfffftttt


G-S

 

Nah mate, I just ate an ice cream.

GB, oops, wrong joke.

 

But, but, but, my bike has a car-sized battery. Do I still have to get a
motorcycle battery charger? And what would the difference be?

Theo

 

That's why I'm careful to use only the factory supplied battery leads which
squeeze the volts down to their proper motorcycle size.

Theo

 

If you have a car sized battery get a car sized charger (4 to 8 amp range).

If you have a large bike sized battery get a small car charger or a bike
charger (2 to 4 amp range).

If you have a little piddy bike battery (like lots of trail bikes) then
definitly get a bike charger or trickle charger (1 to 2 amp range).

Putting a large charger on a small battery can exceed the maximum charge
rate. Sure it'll drop (eventually) but even the minimum can be too high.

I wouldn't use a 4 amp car charger on the XT250 trail bike battery (kick
only) as an example, but my 1 amp plane trickle charger is perfect.

The internal control circuits on most cheap battery chargers don't have
a great amount of 'control'.


G-S

 

Don't be silly!

Volts are a standard size... it's amps that come in different versions!!


G-S

 

thank gawd someone's provided a respectable answer to the Big Volts Small
Volts bulshit