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Battery charging
Hubby drained my battery listening to the radio. It's been on a tender for almost 24 hours and still won't start. What's the best way to charge it? Yes, I know he was stupid to do this, but I need to know how to fix it.
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Battery
See if it can be jump started from your 4 wheel vehicle with jumper cables. If you try this do not start the car! Just hookup the cables, wait a few minutes and then try to start your Spyder. If that doesn't work it may be time for a new battery.
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2013 ST-S retired 1/9/16 at 25,061 miles
2015 F3S sold at 77,565 miles.
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I hope the battery isn't bad. I just bought the bike new in February and it only has 3000 miles on it.
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I think jump starting with your car will work. Try it and let us know.
2020 F3 Ltd
Spyderpops Bumpskid
Spyderpops Brake/Run/Turn Signal LED's
Lamonster Garage LED Fog Lights and Headlights
2013 ST-S retired 1/9/16 at 25,061 miles
2015 F3S sold at 77,565 miles.
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I had this happen the other night while I had bike on but not running. Battery drained down to 11.4 volts which is a full discharge. Bought a Battery Tender brand charger/tender at Walmart. Plugged it in around 9pm and by 10am is started fine. The one I used was a 1.25amp charger. The strength of the charger will dictate the charging time. The battery is around a 22ah battery. You should have at least 80% charge to start. Depending on strength of your charger and how depleted battery was it could take a while. If battery went to < 3v it's probably bad. If you do jump start it you need to ride it for a while for battery to recharge. If you jump it and go a short distance and shut bike off it likely won't start again.
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2023 RT Limited Petrol Blue Metallic
Working on the upgrades... so far... Show Chrome Isolator Fuse Block, Tackform Adventure Wireless charger phone mount
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2015 RT Limited Intense Red Pearl
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Here's the thing....
Battery tenders will not charge a dead battery. You need a regular charger or charge it from the engine. As mentioned above you can jump start it from a car but with the engine off. Then take a nice long ryde without turning it off. Battery should be fine.....
Gene and Ilana De Laney
Mt. Helix, California
2012 RS sm5
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Registered Users
Battery tenders are great for maintaining a charge, but once it gets below that level, a good battery charger is needed. I have a Genius, believe the model is 3500 that will also desulfate a battery. It has brought back a battery that was so badly discharged that I had to hook it to another battery just to get the charger to recognize it at first.
Clifford Fargason
2013 Spyder RTL
2007 Royal Star Venture
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Check out Cosco stores car jumper around $50 plus.
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if your battey is discharged and you jump start it then drive it to charge you will not be able to return it to more then 80% capacity. If you leave it like this it will shorten the life of your battery and work your charging system too much. Get a proper charger and and charge it fully. Then you can maintain it with riding or the tender.
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2012 RT L
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Like spydersteve said the more expensive battery tender maintainer/charger will charge a battery. The less expensive battery tender junior is just a maintainer.
2015 RTS Special Series
Russell Day Long seat
F4 Customs windshield
Sena 20s
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The Jr will charge, its just a lower output so it takes longer.
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Thanks for all of your help! We found out that the battery tender had a blown fuse. We hooked up a battery charger and carefully watched it. Got it fully charged and the bike started.
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Originally Posted by debbiepalamar
Hubby drained my battery listening to the radio. It's been on a tender for almost 24 hours and still won't start. What's the best way to charge it? Yes, I know he was stupid to do this, but I need to know how to fix it.
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Its actually not too stupid. Its actually a good thing as batteries develop a memory if left on a charger or kept fully charged all the time. The best thing to do is find a good 5 stage charger/tender to use instead of just a trickle charger type. I have a extreme brand purchased off amazon.
Last edited by happyspyder2039; 05-26-2016 at 09:41 PM.
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Originally Posted by debbiepalamar
Thanks for all of your help! We found out that the battery tender had a blown fuse. We hooked up a battery charger and carefully watched it. Got it fully charged and the bike started.
Thanks for letting us know how it worked out!
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