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- From: dlady@galoob.cs.utk.edu (Don Lady)
- Newsgroups: rec.motorcycles
- Subject: Re: J.C. Whitney vs. dealer
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 00:21:24 GMT
- Organization: University of Tennessee, Knoxville - Department of Computer Science
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- In article <4fJkevK00j_j0=W1sh@cs.cmu.edu>, Dale.James@cs.cmu.edu writes:
- |> I have bought batteries from JCW in the past, and will again in the future
- |> when (...
- |> I also put a JCW battery in my GS1100E this spring. The first one I received
- |> Despite charging system problems in the GS1100 which routinely overcharge the
- |> battery and boil the electrolyte down to frightningly low levels, the battery
- |> will only fail to start the bike on the coldest of mornings, when the bike
- |> hasn't been run for a couple weeks.
- |>
- |> peace,
- |> --dale
- |> Dale James, DoD #0229
- |>
- |> `This is Pennsylvania. Love it or....oh, hell. Wait for me!'
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- If your GS is boiling the battery dry, you have a bad regulator or even worse
- a bad rectifier. Suzuki's are notorious for eating one or the other if
- you let the battery get low. When battery voltage is low, the charging system
- will put out upwards of 70 volts!!! In a 12 -15 volt system, it fries stuff.
- Just FYI..
- --
- Don (dlady@cs.utk.edu) Lady
- AMA #162364 DoD #803
- Suzuki GS850GX, GS750EN Yamaha DT175E for the cowtrails!
- Honda TR200 (used to be the ex's)
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