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help on battery - 8/28/2008 7:12:33 PM

msrubicon89

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my battery is crackling or growling when i try to start my bike. what is this

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RE: help on battery - 8/28/2008 7:13:53 PM

msrubicon89

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and also can i get a lawn and garden battery

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RE: help on battery - 8/28/2008 8:30:33 PM

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Sounds like a dead battery. Try to charge it up and put a load test to it. If it has a bad cell, replace it. I'm sure a lawn and garden battery would work as long as it's the same size with the terminals in the same location as the stock battery. Try to get one with comparable CAs and CCAs

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RE: help on battery - 8/29/2008 12:16:45 PM

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Personally, I'd avoid the lawn and garden battery. They are mostly flooded cell lead acid batteries, and will likely need a vent hose and can spill if tipped.

Most ATV's come with an AGM (Absorbed Glass Mat) type battery. They are sealed, won't spill even if the case is broken, resist vibration better, resist freezing better, and generally last twice as long... but they are a bit more expensive.

The crackling or growling sound makes me wonder if something is arcing. WEAR EYE PROTECTION and clean up the terminals and put it on a trickle charger (like battery tender), and once it is fully charged load test it or see if it will start the quad.

Sometimes an internal connection in the battery can crack, and arc when charging or trying to start. Since batteries produce explosive gas when charging, this can cause an explosion.

ABSOLUTELY MAKE SURE YOU PROTECT YOUR EYES when working around batteries, especially this one.

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RE: help on battery - 8/29/2008 3:37:44 PM

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my guess would be a bad or discharged battery or bad connections, the sound your hearing is the starter solenoid not getting enough power to operate the starter. If it is the battery i would recommend a quality battery instead of a cheap one your going to replace in a year if lucky.

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RE: help on battery - 8/29/2008 3:42:10 PM

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Carefully determine the source of the noise. If it's truely the battery, it's junk, unhook it and trade it in as a core on the new one without any further attempt at "saving" it. If the noise is from the battery, there's a couple of limited reasons it'll do it, and none are "servicable", even as a band-aid, and the consequences of trying can be dangerous at best.

OTOH, you may find that the noise is not actually the battery, but electrical and/or electronic components (starter solenoid in particular) doing silly things due to a low voltage condition. Possibly from the component failure, wiring issue, or dead battery.

Avoid lawn and garden batteries at all cost.

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