will get it fitted and feed back thoughts. Got it from Allbatteries.co.uk for £87, so £30 more than the Yuasa regular battery. It's made by Skyrich who are now a Ducati partner so hopefully it's going to be fine. This one is for the Thruxton. If it goes well the others will be getting one too.
I've got one in my 1098 and I must admit I was really wondering had I done the right thing as I started to get worried by all the horror stories. Its been in over a year now although I don't do a lot of miles admittedly and its been fine, no problems whatsoever. I'd try to get a battery charger that can set the voltage on it to a storage level as well as full charge and also capable of balance charging the individual cell packs within the battery. Life can be affected if you store them for long periods at full charge, well on mine anyway (Shorai). If there is not a charger for it then take a look at aero modellers web sites as they sell a lot of these types of chargers. Find out what the upper, lower and store charge voltages are too. If you let them fall below a critical value there is a good chance the battery will be toast, they are not quite as tough as lead acid batteries. That said you'd need to doll it out a high level of abuse to kill it. Just what (little) I know of them and be interesting to hear your thoughts
I fitted a shorai lithium battery on my 996 earlier in the year and was amazed at how light they are. I altered the OE battery box and made it smaller to fit the shorai. I weighed everything before/after and I saved about 10lb alone by switching to the new battery. It actually seems to crank the bike over better and whilst I only use the bike once every 3 weeks ive had no problems so far. Ive not yet invested in a charger for it.
just bought an impact gun with em i was told to let it cool down after charging and not to let it get cold?
I had a Shorai on my 999s a couple of years back, I bought it as my bike would never start when it got proper cold, with the shorai it fired up first time everytime and as you say, they weigh nothing... sound investment
Probably a Lithium Phosphate @finm rather than LiFe but they are similar to a degree. Anyway from what I've heard lithium have problems at extreme low temps and may require a few prods to get the current flowing to heat them before they are capable of delivering full current flow. I think we are talking -10C at least, so not really much of a problem where we live. LiPo can be dodgy when hot either from rapid charging or discharging so yes if its getting really warm I'd let it cool. Haven't seen anything that states the battery might be damaged by letting it get cold.
Very light......the same battery can be used in my 749R so will get one for that too. My problem with lead acid batteries over winter is I don't trust an optimate not to start a fire and I am useless at remembering to keep them charged.whereas with Lithium, you just disconnect it, and that's it. It will hold charge for a couple of years. Photos of both on the scales to follow. The reading is grams.
Thanks for your feedback guys. Made me go read the manual ! Anyways, long term storage advice is to disconnect and recharge every 180 days. They only take 6 minutes to charge, so will may just run the motor for once over winter.
