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... more

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