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Originally Posted by DannoXYZ
Along those lines, skip gel and go straight to lithium-iron battery! Make sure you get one with over-discharge and over-charge protection. Battery Tender line of batteries are darn good!
Don't need to keep on tender if you ride once a year. Be sure to get "dumb" charger, those "rescue" and de-sulphate cycles with high-voltage and AC will harm lithium battery. Heck just touch up charge with auto-charger every once in while, they can take charge-rates 10x higher than lead-acid batteries!
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Interesting. For the 400, they recommend the
BTL09A150CW as the standard option (
BTL12A270CW as an upgrade). It's only 2.5Ah vs. 8Ah on the standard
YTX9-BS, but it's 150CCA instead of 135CCA. It's also 1.76lb instead of 6.6lb (the
BTL14A300CW for the 500 is <3lb vs. >10lb). My biggest concern is actually all the smarts they put into it - more stuff to go wrong with it. They do have a 3-year, 100%/50%/35% warranty too.
I don't need a new battery, but now I want one of those... Anyone wanna buy a used stock 400 battery cheap?
