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What's this please? (motorcycle charger)

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  • 17-02-2018 3:55pm
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    blade1
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    Seems to do nothing when pressed
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    Old Perry
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    blade1 wrote: »
    Seems to do nothing when pressed
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    Sicherung means fuse.


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    blade1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,375 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Old Perry wrote: »
    Sicherung means fuse.

    I know, but how does it work?
    What is pressing the button supposed to do?


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    ltdslipdiff
    Registered Users Posts: 759 ✭✭✭ltdslipdiff


    I'd say it resets if it trips? That or it screws out and theres a glass-type fuse in there...


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    K.Flyer
    Registered Users Posts: 8,565 ✭✭✭K.Flyer


    Its like a circuit breaker, the centre button pops out in the event of a short or an overload. You just push it back in to reset it.


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    blade1
    Registered Users Posts: 12,375 ✭✭✭✭blade1


    Thanks lads!
    I hadn't seen it in any other charger I've ever used.
    Would that charger be too powerful to use on motorbike batteries?


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    Irish Steve
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    Depends on the battery voltage. Some motorbikes use 6V batteries, that charger is 12/24, and if battery is 6V, it won't work for you.

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    blade1
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    Irish Steve wrote: »
    Depends on the battery voltage. Some motorbikes use 6V batteries, that charger is 12/24, and if battery is 6V, it won't work for you.

    12v.
    Last time I had a 6v battery in a motorbike was 1988. :pac:

    I'm more worried about the ah.
    It says on the charger min 30ah.
    I think 12v bike batteries are around 15ah.
    Would that mean it could fry a battery?


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    Chippy01
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    blade1 wrote: »
    12v.
    Last time I had a 6v battery in a motorbike was 1988. :pac:

    I'm more worried about the ah.
    It says on the charger min 30ah.
    I think 12v bike batteries are around 15ah.
    Would that mean it could fry a battery?

    I may be wrong, but I heard long ago that the charge rate of the charger should be 1/10th of the battery charge (or something like that) or you will fry the battery.
    For example a 140 amp battery, the max charge rate should be 14amps.

    Motorcycle batteries are much lower in power. One of my bikes has a 12 amp battery, the other has a 14amp. So 1.2 or 1.4 amps would be the maximum needed for those. My bike charger/tender is a 1 amp, so it does either one, and has done for years.


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    colm_mcm
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    Says there on the front that it’s for 30-200 ah


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    stewygriffin
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    blade1 wrote: »
    Seems to do nothing when pressed
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    Do you have the nuclear launch codes too??:p


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    CJhaughey
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    Thats too big a charger for a bike battery, 10% of the battery rating is the max or you can boil the battery and distort the plates.
    Most bike chargers are around 4Ah Max.
    I wouldn't use it tbh.


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    blade1
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    CJhaughey wrote: »
    Thats too big a charger for a bike battery, 10% of the battery rating is the max or you can boil the battery and distort the plates.
    Most bike chargers are around 4Ah Max.
    I wouldn't use it tbh.

    Yeah,it is for car batteries.
    A mod moved this from car thread to here.
    (And added motorcycle charger to title :rolleyes:)
    I was fairly sure it was too big for bikes.


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    Hotblack Desiato
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    Lidl do a charger for 20 euro which is suitable for any car or bike battery. They have it in a few times a year and the last time was a week or two ago, there might still be some floating around.

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    blade1
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    Hotblack Desiato wrote: »
    Lidl do a charger for 20 euro which is suitable for any car or bike battery. They have it in a few times a year and the last time was a week or two ago, there might still be some floating around.

    Yeah,I have one and also an oximiser.


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    CJhaughey
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    I bought one as well, I now have an original Optimate, must be close to 20 years old now, Louis XL charger which is a hybrid Transformer/smart charger and One of the Lidl Ultimate speed chargers which actually does a pretty reasonable job for only 20 euro.
    Louis have a couple of smart chargers on sale atm, H-tronic for €19.95 and their own brand Procharger with a decent fixed lead with a waterproof plug and fuse built in for 49.95 which is IMO a decent price.


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    galwaytt
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    do NOT put that on a bike battery. Max amperage on a battery is 1/10th it's capacity, so anything from 800mA - 1200mA covers most bikes.

    That charger will fry a bike battery, and quickly.

    LIDL have bike specific ones atmo for €19.99. Work well, I have them a few years.

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    stewygriffin
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    Battery Tender multi charger for 40 euro.
    Charges lithium and normal gel batteries.
    Keeps them on safe charge too.
    Can be got in Franklin Motorcycles.


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    Dan Jaman
    Registered Users Posts: 39,612 ✭✭✭✭Dan Jaman


    A useful thing if you're stuck with a car charger that's going to pump too much current into a bike battery is this...
    Put a 55/60W headlamp bulb in the positive lead in series with the battery. Just one filament - it will limit the current flowing to ~ 0.5A and charge up your bike battery without cooking it.
    You know those old headlamp bulbs you took out and threw away? You should have kept one :) 
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