Fired Up

[SDN]

Well I fired up the TRX for the first ime in about six weeks, it started fine, but I think I will need to put the battery on a trickle charger

While talking about batteries does anyone have any experience of light weight batteries Lithium Ion I would guess?

What are the weight savings / Cost / Pros and Cons.

Shame I was at work yesterday coz it looked like a nice day for a ride

[Mincehead]

Had this bookmarked for ages now:

http://www.batterystuff.com/kb/articles ... rview.html

NWS870 had some issues with a race spec lithium polymer battery, but yea much smaller and lighter, ideal for specials and / or weight saving but of course more expensive than a lead acid or acid gel type battery.

[bagmaker]

dont go lithium polymer, go lithium iron. much lighter, enough bang to start anything

Look on the bay for lifepo battery

[Kayla]

It's lithium iron phosphate (LiFePo4) that are the ones to get to use on bikes. I used a 4 cell 2.3AH one on an FZR4/6 and an XJ550 and it was fine. They have loads more oomph to start the bike but they don't have much capacity and don't take kindly to trying to start a reluctant bike from stone cold after a year's lay up! They weigh a lot less than standard lead acid batteries and I think they're a good way to eek a few kg from the bike

I got mine from www.electricwingman.com but they seem to have stopped doing anything other than 2 cell batteries