10-27-2024, 10:00 AM
After getting stranded with a dead battery on my CB 1100 last week (thanks to the help of strangers pushing I got it bump started and rode it home) I became concerned about what would happen in the same situation with my NC DCT (which is coming up on 4 years old on original battery) or my wife's X Max scooter CVT (2 years old), neither of which could be bump started. The weak link in an automatic motorcycle imo. So, I started researching jump starters.
I learned that jump starters can't be run thru the battery tender jr pigtails I already have on my bikes because of too much volts or amps? something to do with the battery tender jr wires being too small. So, it was either rig up my own wires that would mate to a jump starter or find someone who already made them. Research and talking with other motorcyclists led me to a company called Noco which had everything I'd needed... pigtails to hook up to my batteries, charger/maintainers for extended storage and the jump starter itself. I know some people don't believe in battery maintainers, but I have had excellent experience with them over the last couple of decades, and will continue to use them, and having a system all designed to work together just made sense to me. So, I contacted the company, asked them some questions, which they always answered the same day (Unlike contacting Cardo for my helmet comms which sometimes took a week to get a response from) and placed an order.
Tonight, the Amazon driver dropped me off a package during dinner
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Tomorrow I'm running over to a buddy's house who, unlike me, actually likes to work on things lol, and we will hook one of these pigtails up on the NC. Another day we will tackle the X Max.
Hopefully I will never have to use the jump starter. But if I'm out and the NC or X Max fails to fire, it will be comforting to know I can get it going again and get home.
I learned that jump starters can't be run thru the battery tender jr pigtails I already have on my bikes because of too much volts or amps? something to do with the battery tender jr wires being too small. So, it was either rig up my own wires that would mate to a jump starter or find someone who already made them. Research and talking with other motorcyclists led me to a company called Noco which had everything I'd needed... pigtails to hook up to my batteries, charger/maintainers for extended storage and the jump starter itself. I know some people don't believe in battery maintainers, but I have had excellent experience with them over the last couple of decades, and will continue to use them, and having a system all designed to work together just made sense to me. So, I contacted the company, asked them some questions, which they always answered the same day (Unlike contacting Cardo for my helmet comms which sometimes took a week to get a response from) and placed an order.
Tonight, the Amazon driver dropped me off a package during dinner
Tomorrow I'm running over to a buddy's house who, unlike me, actually likes to work on things lol, and we will hook one of these pigtails up on the NC. Another day we will tackle the X Max.
Hopefully I will never have to use the jump starter. But if I'm out and the NC or X Max fails to fire, it will be comforting to know I can get it going again and get home.