Battery charger

Felix · 5 Mar 2018 at 09:04

So having left the bike for 3 months the battery is now flat. Any recommendations for chargers?

Felix · 5 Mar 2018 at 09:34

arfoll said:
If you have a bike with a canbus it might be worth getting a charger that supports that so you can plug it in directly.

How do I know? Its a Bandit 650.

Felix · 5 Mar 2018 at 11:46

TallPaul_S said:
I use an Oxford oximiser 900, has a LCD readout so you know what it's doing, does the job well.

Thanks, I had seen those. Did it come with croc clips?

Felix · 5 Mar 2018 at 21:11

Hmm well picked up a Oxford Oximiser 900 on the way home and it does nothing. Just sits on 0 volts and 0 amps. Put a multimeter on the battery and it reads just under 12 volts.

Felix · 6 Mar 2018 at 10:04

TallPaul_S said:
You've got it attached the right way, yes?

It should give you a warning light if anything is wrong, the LCD should light up and indicate if it's on bulk charge/maintain etc.

Yup, green light. I even tested the wrong way to see if it warned, which it did. Screen lights up, no mention of what it's doing.

Felix · 19 Mar 2018 at 08:49

Craig321 said:
Does it have some sort of recovery programme it's running maybe? That's what the Optimates do on a dead battery, they will try pulse recovery or something like that, so it might just be pulsing it?

It should say on the screen. In the end I took it back and just bought a new battery. The old one was original and had been in the bike for 8 years!