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Originally Posted by Proteus
.........She did start riding with the high beam during the day last week, do high beams generally draw enough extra current to make a difference? Or is it just not getting enough high rpms to charge and it took 10 days to wear down?
Trying to figure out if it's the high beams or just the riding pattern, either way I think we'll need to give it some more use during the week or hook the battery up to my charger every weekend.
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High beams may be only 5 watts or 0.45 A more.
In heavy traffic, she is using a lot of brake light, which may be around 15 watts.
Even low rpms should be charging up all the time.
The real killer is the electric starter working after each 4 miles.
Simply put, the generator does not have enough time to recover the electrons sucked by the starter motor.
The best solution: to hook the battery up to a charger every weekend (keep teh charge rate at less than 1 A).
A full battery is a happy battery; a battery that is deeply discharged frequently cannot live long.