I live in a condo where my carport is detached from the building and is across the drive. An electrical outlet is not available. Is there a Battery Tender-like device available that I can charge inside during the day and then take out to the bike to trickle charge it overnight?
2007-05-02 07:38:36 · 7 answers · asked by dave77459 2 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Motorcycles
sorry for those answers
If you go to a camper store and i have seen these at walmart
they make a solar powered battery trickle charger
I got mine at walmart to charge the alarm battery on my box trailer it works great
2007-05-02 07:59:15 · answer #1 · answered by 51 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
You are going to have to have a power source for the charger to pull power from and trickle into the battery.
There is an accessory for the Battery Tender that will plug into a vehicle 12V cigarette lighter socket. I guess you could get one of those and het a regular high amp 12V car battery and just set that out by the bike with a cigarette lighter socket wired straight to it and run your tender off of it.
But if your battery won't hold a charge for a night either you have a bad battery or you have some parasitic battary drain issues that will soon ruin your battery.
2007-05-02 07:47:24 · answer #2 · answered by Clint M 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have to agree with fire guy above me unless you have an electrical problem bike should not have any problems sitting a month between start ups toooo many owners think they have to keep a trickle charge on all the time bet there salesman told them that just before they sold them a battery tender LOL
2007-05-02 14:18:53 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
51 has the best idea, but solar cells don't work well at night. Would be fine during the day. Why do you want to "plug it in"? If you ride it regularly, there should be no need. The only time you should really need to trickle it should be when it's in storage. At that time, pull the battery and care for it indoors.
2007-05-02 12:27:58 · answer #4 · answered by Firecracker . 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
NO! A battery is a DC ability source and a wall socket is an AC ability source. you will mess your sh!t up in case you in basic terms plug it into the wall. in case you pick to, say, use a wall socket to recharge a battery, you will ought to apply a transformer to drop down the voltage and then bypass it by way of a rectifier to tutor the AC source into DC.
2016-12-28 07:48:58 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there a light in the carport? Maybe you can run an extension cord from an adapter.
2007-05-02 07:43:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
dude just pull the battery out and take it inside
2007-05-02 07:43:53 · answer #7 · answered by m1carbine2003 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋