battery

[MAN OF BLUES]

almost every autoparts store will take them no charge (they charge you a core charge if you buy a battery without turning in your old one nowadays...), and most tire places also...

[TJ]

New battery just received was at 70% so I charged it to 100%. Installed it in the bike along with a battery trickle charger (which I didnt have on the bike before)
3 hours later it shows the battery is still charging. Switched the trickle charger with one on another bike and same thing. But my other bike shows charged with either trickle chargers.
Turn on the key and battery shows 11.5 volts. Start it up and within a minute battery is at 14.3 or 14.5 volts.
Normal? When should the new battery register as being charged?

[MAN OF BLUES]

If you "charged it" using a high amperage charger (6-10 amp rate) for a half hour, and the meter on that charger showed it was charged, it likely was not fully charged. The meters are notorious for not giving true amperage values...
When you stuck the "trickle" (Battery Tender brand?) on it, and it was only charging at 1 to 1-1/2 amps, it would require about 4-6 hours to push that last bit in.

The 14.5v you are seeing on the bike is the voltage being pushed from the generator to the battery terminals, not what is currently the voltage of the battery. Hitting the kill switch while in the voltage mode will show what the bat is at.

I ran thru this myself last weekend, and questioned it.
cleaning all the cables, and mating surfaces after that, and doing a deep cycle charge made everything correct for me.

if you put it on trickle overnight, it should be fully charged by tomorrow.

[TJ]

Thanks:) I was kind of thinking the same thing since the charger brought it up from 70 to 100 in about 5 minutes.
Hopefully tomorrow morning will show it fully charged.

Edited: All is well as it showed fully charged about 3 hours after this post.