'22 RT starting slowly after sitting on tender - replacement Battery?

[BajaRon]

I apologize for not reading all the posts. So, this may be redundant. But a trickle charger (maintainer) will not bring a low charged battery back to full charge. They are designed to maintain a fully charged battery only. If your battery is low, you need to use a charger designed to bring it to a full charge first, then put it on a maintenance battery tender.

[BLUEKNIGHT911]

I apologize for not reading all the posts. So, this may be redundant. But a trickle charger (maintainer) will not bring a low charged battery back to full charge. They are designed to maintain a fully charged battery only. If your battery is low, you need to use a charger designed to bring it to a full charge first, then put it on a maintenance battery tender.

Well I reported 6 mos. ago that I did just that ..... not a Spyder battery, it was an automotive one .... it took about 4 days & did use a regular charger to initially Jolt it ... But right now that battery is still holding a charge and it's been outside all winter .....just sayin ....Mike

[Peteoz]

I apologize for not reading all the posts. So, this may be redundant. But a trickle charger (maintainer) will not bring a low charged battery back to full charge. They are designed to maintain a fully charged battery only. If your battery is low, you need to use a charger designed to bring it to a full charge first, then put it on a maintenance battery tender.

Yes, although most decent bits of gear these days perform both tasks, Ron. Mine does a bulk charge to bring the battery back to full charge, then moves to a trickle/maintenance charge to hold it there

Pete

[ReRose]

Wife has a 2020 Spyder RTL and after the 2nd winter sitting in the garage on a maintainer charger it did not want to start but finally did. Threw a regular charger on it and no problem that summer. Same thing after the 3rd winter only the VSS light came on. She got a battery from Lamonster and now cranks like crazy fast for a quick fire up. Do not know how long it will last but the old battery sits on my work bench on the maintainer and is used as a test battery when I need 12 volts for something.

[KAMJAM]

I bought my 2020 Spyder and picked it up in March of 2020.
By March 2022 the factory YUASA battery was dead. Prior to its premature demise, the Spyder would turn over slowly.
It's true, "They don't make 'em like they used to".
I was stranded and needed an immediate replacement.
I got a battery at Oreilly's.
I don't have a lot of faith in modern batteries, I've also had problems with the marine batteries on my boat.
I figured, I'd better change out the Spyder battery for the 2024 riding season, so I don't get stranded again.
I wound up getting the NOCO LIPO battery I bought from Lamonster.
It's supposed to last 10 times as long.
The only problem I've found so far is that I needed to replace my battery tender with a more modern one that allows for the LIPO battery chemistry.

I ran into to similar situation - our 2020 RT's were "left over" models that we purchased in 2021. My battery went bad in 6 months, I'm guessing that it was on the show room floor w/o any battery maintenance for months. I installed a MotoBatt from Slingmods, it lasted just over a year before the slow cranking happened, and the brass terminals had evidence of corrosion (leakage?) We made the jump to Noco LiPo batteries recently (already had the chargers) and haven't looked back.