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Maintaining your Battery

Written by phildave on February 20, 2009 – 3:00 pm -

The battery in a scooter is different to the one your car. It has comparatively small electrical capacity, is constantly drained by alerts and headlamps, and doesn’t charge as promptly as a automobile battery does.
The Problem
A scooter battery can lose substantial charge whenever the scooter hasn’t been used for a week or two, and it generally requires much more a short run to recharge it. Usually its more common to see a dead scooter battery in wintertime when scootering is at a minimum. Also, Chinese scooter batteries are distinctly inferior, but domestic ones are not much better. The always-on headlamps, put together with the on-by-default warning devices on most scooters both contribute promptly to dead scooter batteries.

The Answer

Keep your battery charged up, even with an electric charger if needed! Naturally, it’s generally possible to start your scooter, even whenever the spark plug gets wet, but it can take a good bit of fast and hard cranking to get it going again and the kick starter can’t seem to do the job (kick starting can also be painful, depending on the design. You need to ride them very consistently to keep the battery fully charged, so a trickle charger is almost all-important equipment for a scooterist who doesn’t ride on a regular basis.

Don’t jump start it!

If your scooter won’t turn over with the electric starter, a jump-start isn’t necessarily recommended. Even with the car engine off, a jump start from a car battery can overpower the scooters electrical system, blowing fuses or worse - the voltage regulator blew.). Keeping your battery fully charged is a much better solution.

 
 
 

 

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