Lithium Batteries And My Trip To Snells Ducati.

No rear brake on any ducati ever works after 3 weeks sat unused....

 

Quick wipe down with Avtur.... "She'll do a trip" eh Bob? ....

 

Except for my 939 Supersport which has worked fine without ever needing bleeding, and it has the same components as the Monster 821.

 

I put a lithium battery in my bike simply because it is smaller, and so allowed me to fit an under-fairing frame protector, since I didn't like the ones that stick out of the fairing. The one I purchased from USA replaces the engine bolt with a new bolt that has fixings for the sliders. However, there is then no space for a standard-sized battery. Since also replacing my ignition cables with the Exact upgrade, the bike fires up very easily.

That said, I'm rather alarmed now with all this talk of failing regulators leading to battery fires. I have a good make of battery (Shorai), but having followed the link that MarkDuc posted, it look straight forward and so I think I'll implement that upgrade as a precaution.

 

If you get. The triumph connector lead (I think they were made for earlier 600s) it’s easy , hole center s are different on the r/r tho

 

Thanks, yes that Triumph wiring part looks like it makes the job easy. I just need to figure out how to secure it, I liked the carbon fibre solution shown in the article.

 

Looks like I'll be following you down the same path! Daft not to.

 

I used a square ish piece of 3mm alloy plate only needs a slight bend in it
Easy in a vice

 

Chunk of Aluminium will help cool it better, like I did on my M900.
Although in theory it won't need as much cooling of course.

Nasher.

 

I had a bracket made out of alumium on a sail boat engine, to hold a filter, and it sheered off after a year due to the vibration. My understanding is that aluminium doesn't take well to vibrations. If it's only a slight bend required, perhaps that's fine? On the boat engine bracket it was a 90 degree bend, which clearly stressed the metal...

 

Yep, Ali will work harden with the vibration and do that if not supported both ends to stop it moving.

Nasher

 

But it’s mounted on the battery box so not really getting a lot of vibration more a bit of a wobble

 

OK cool, thanks.

 

I was referring to Outliars boat filter application.

Silly me for not being specific enough.

Nasher

 

So to check then, will securing the R/R unit to the bike provide that support? As @Markduc said, if vibration is not too bad in this location I guess this will be fine.

 

That’s just my opinion I’m no engineer or physicist
If I remember right you only need one bend because new r/r is thicker and a taller than the original
I’ll take a pic later

 

Oh whoops... yes, I ended up re-using the bracket by having it welded as I had just sailed from UK to Alderney in the Channel Islands and there was no time to fabricate a new part. It's been fine ever since!

 

Understood, and thanks in advance for the pic!

 

My excuse is I’m only on my second cup of coffee, sorry should of twigged that