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Ok, I was under the impression the trickle charger was just a battery charger and was a little "harsher" at recharging the battery, thus ultimately shortening the battery life, compared to using a specific type battery tender/doc/etc.

ofblong wrote:

Shorts wrote:

skorman00 wrote:Stupid me, I left my key in the ignition and in the start position while in a rush, and forgot about it. Now my battery is dead. I tried jumping it by hooking the + end to another battery, but it didn't work.

Is my battery completely dead, or will I have to take it out, and hook both leads to another battery?

Make sure its full (if its the kind you can open and maintain), then let it sit on a charger for a day or overnight.

I also suggest a Battery Tender or the like so that whenever you get home, you can automatically plug it in and leave it. Unlike a trickle charger, a battery tender will mind the voltage and only apply charge when it drops below a certain level.

umm a trickle charger does the same thing. if the battery gets to a certain point the charger starts until battery is full then the charger stops charging although im not sure if it varies the voltage applied based on how charged the battery is.

Shorts wrote:Ok, I was under the impression the trickle charger was just a battery charger and was a little "harsher" at recharging the battery, thus ultimately shortening the battery life, compared to using a specific type battery tender/doc/etc.

ofblong wrote:

Shorts wrote:

skorman00 wrote:Stupid me, I left my key in the ignition and in the start position while in a rush, and forgot about it. Now my battery is dead. I tried jumping it by hooking the + end to another battery, but it didn't work.

Is my battery completely dead, or will I have to take it out, and hook both leads to another battery?

Make sure its full (if its the kind you can open and maintain), then let it sit on a charger for a day or overnight.

I also suggest a Battery Tender or the like so that whenever you get home, you can automatically plug it in and leave it. Unlike a trickle charger, a battery tender will mind the voltage and only apply charge when it drops below a certain level.

umm a trickle charger does the same thing. if the battery gets to a certain point the charger starts until battery is full then the charger stops charging although im not sure if it varies the voltage applied based on how charged the battery is.

hehe nope. Thats the first thing my father told me when we were talking about winterizing my bike (I wanted to know how to do it so in October I can do it lol). Use a trickle charger on it all winter so you dont have a dead battery come spring . As you said, however, a normal battery charger will shorten the life of your battery.

I picked up some metric wrenches today. However, my little charger can't charge it. According to the error code, I have to bring it to a certified distributor or something....basically I think it's telling me the battery is totally dead =(

I'm trying to get a ride to the motorcycle shop I got the bike at so I can get a new battery. Or the wally world, depending how far my ride is willing to go hehe.

skorman00 wrote:Stupid me, I left my key in the ignition and in the start position while in a rush, and forgot about it. Now my battery is dead. I tried jumping it by hooking the + end to another battery, but it didn't work.

Is my battery completely dead, or will I have to take it out, and hook both leads to another battery?

The proper procedure is to hook up the positives and negatives of the good battery, then connect the positive of the dead battery and use the negative for a ground (put it on the frame). Let your car run for a little bit, turn the bike on, put it in neutral, turn off killswitch, hit starter. Depending on the bike you give it some gas while your starting, try using both. With my Ninja it will only cold start if I press the starter with no throttle.

What exactly did you do when you tried to "jump" it? What did you hook up to where?