New Superlight Battery

mattyvas · November 09, 2012, 02:00:24 AM

Maybe Andy can help out on that front, he has a fan-dangled superlight battery thingy.

koko64 · November 09, 2012, 02:31:27 PM

I ended up with a Shorai 18 for the Monster and a 14 for the Gixxer.
Got the charger/diag/tender gizmo as well.
The new importer seems like a good bloke and helpful.

Yellow Meanie · November 09, 2012, 10:29:17 PM

Thanks Koko, I'll look into it.

I was going to go through Ca-Cycleworks, but their postage charges seem to have gone through the roof

Rowdy · November 09, 2012, 11:02:31 PM

Quote from: koko64 on November 09, 2012, 02:31:27 PM
I ended up with a Shorai 18 for the Monster and a 14 for the Gixxer.
Got the charger/diag/tender gizmo as well.
The new importer seems like a good bloke and helpful.

I got my Shorai 18 locally and the guy was really helpful too. I've had it for about eight months and its been great.

Andy55 · November 10, 2012, 03:45:46 AM

Not sure I can offer anything worthwhile in the way of assistance as I have only just fitted up the 14A/h Shorai to the Monster.
Everything is great so far but its only been in there for a few weeks.
It sure is a hell of a lot lighter though , thats for sure.

Roaduser · November 11, 2012, 08:54:50 PM

im not proud to say, but i killed two of the 14ah shorai battteries within days!!

one of which was Andys!!

damn intermittent problem with stator keep slipping past me. being LiFe batteries, the idle and running voltages were ok even with a slightly limp charging system, but then when i got confidence in the system all being fine and went for a longer ride and the bike gets hot, it seems a coil or two in the stator was goin open circuit and the charging became non existent. it then only took about 30mins of traffic to make them into paperwieghts. proud to say that since replacing the stator it has worked faultlessly, just did 3300kms to phillip island and back without drama

lesson learnt is lithium batteries will slightly cover up a lame charging system when fully charged, yet will not handle a lame charging system in traffic. they are much more vulnerable to such oversights.

Yellow Meanie · November 11, 2012, 10:27:35 PM

Good to know, thanks Roaduser.

I think I'll go over the whole system before I install one.

Roaduser · November 11, 2012, 10:37:13 PM

yeah not recommended to do it all purely for precaution, but i have ended up with a new stator, replaced loom (done more for aesthetic reasons but kinda related), new shindengen regulator, and three shorai batteries. All that with the cost of three shorais instead of just one, it wasnt a cheap exercise....but it works great now! haha

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