What if I try start it while plugged in to the battery tender? As a test, That's using the mains so should emulate a good battery or does it not work like that?
My bike was doing this, (1198s) called my local ducati dealer and they said it was battery. I found out that it was still on original (5years old) so decided to change it. She fires up right away now. Simple problem
It's so strange that randomly starts and then dosnt. I would have never have guessed. Wouldn't surprise me if this is still original it's 2009 model bike. I had a look at battery threads and I think I'll get the yuasa yt12b-bs that seems to be what alot of people recommended. It's about 55 in halfords a rennet more than I've seen but I don't have to wait for delivery.
Wow where to start... So I got the yuasa battery and filled the acid then charged over night following andy'a advice from another thread. This morning it had a green light I also had a tail tidy to fit so I began that first. I noticed the green light on the optimate turned yellow? Confused I disconnected it and reconnected it and it turn amber. I decided to leave it following advice from their web site. I return an hour later and no lights at all their web site said it means the battery is faulty. At this point I'm thinking the optimate is faulty and very pissed off. I decide to fit the battery anyway and cleaned the rusted connectors while am at it nd check all connections in that area. I don't connect battery fully invade it was faulty so I just place connectors on the battery and the bike starts as normal [emoji16] ok so now I connect every thing back as it should be including the optimate cable to connect to charger try to start bike and the clicking is back. I tried various combinations thinking shorts as mention in the thread eventually I work out it's the optimate cable thingy. I check the fuse it's fine and a 15a no matter I have a spare optimate cable I bought for my monster notice that one has a 75a fuse fit that and it's still clicking. I've decided to fit battery with out optimate cable and it's fine for now. Not sure what to do as I've got my suspicions about this optimate bollox.
Unfortunately not still clicking. I really think the optimate killed that battery. I might test old battery in monster. Moving forward I'm thinking of disconnect ing battery's when not in use for long periods instead of optimate.
Optimate cable? D'you mean the remote charge thing, thin cable with a little black connector on it? They're shit probably intermittent short bin it
Yes it has an eyelet that connects to the optimate on one end a fuse in the middle and battery terminals on the other end. The thing is I have a new spare I bought by mistake and the spare does the same thing!?
Take the battery off when storing for long periods and remove to a nice warm dry house, charge at 20% Amp rating every month with a quality charger and all should be tickety boo. Gel batteries behave very differently to the old lead acid batteries. Me thinks they need a little more TLC.:Wacky:
Odd that both cables do it, your saying the clicking occurs with just this cable connected to the battery you haven't got the optimate connected as well?
Weird then all I can suggest is stick a multimeter on those extension cables & see if you can find a short, anything other than absolutely open circuit is bad
Exactly. I don't want to keep testing as I don't want to kill new batt constantly cranking and not riding. I'm thinking it must be the fuse in the cable. Although it isn't blown it must be affecting it some how.. Or the problem is some thing else completely and the cable is just the final straw
They're directly connected to the batterys + & - so if there's any sort of short/resistance between the + & - it'll f'ck things up
