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#Post#: 3594--------------------------------------------------
Replacement 12v battery?
By: truck11 Date: May 20, 2016, 2:42 pm
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Strange thing today..... Have not ridden the bike in a few
weeks (that sucks) - but it started fine this morning and rode
it to work. Tried to go to lunch and wouldn't crank. After 30
mins of messing around trying to figure out why, found it was
the battery! All lights came on, all fuses ok etc.
First I got a "dat 14" error. Could not figure out what the
heck that was. Tried it again a few mins later and finally saw
'soft 4.1 dat 14' on the dash. Looked that up to find it was
related to low battery. Managed to jumped it and rode home to
put it on the batteryminder charger.
SO.... thoughts on why it would start in the morning and not
at lunchtime? Temps this am in the mid 50's, lunchtime low
70's.
SO (#2) ...... replace with similar battery, OR switch over to
Lithium iron? Was looking those up and almost fell out of my
chair. $170-$220 for the battery and I will need to get another
charger - $70-100. OEM battery is 7lbs, Lithium iron batts are
2.2lbs or so. saving almost 5lbs
Was looking at the earthX and Shorai batteries.
Suggestions / comments?
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Re: Replacement 12v battery?
By: ShakeWell Date: May 22, 2016, 7:44 pm
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Hey truck11,
I went with a LiPo and haven't had any issues. The new battery
went in at the same time the full exhaust and the two mods
combined made a noticeable improvement in the rear suspension.
The LiPo's are smaller than the stock battery and I used the
foam packing from the box it was shipped in to hold it in place.
Lastly, here's a pick of the LiPo in the battery relocation kit.
The kit is designed to hold the stock shaped battery so you can
see the size difference.
Oh, and you can see the now-recycled-twice foam holding it on
top. :)
[URL=
HTML http://s292.photobucket.com/user/xShakeWellx/media/2014%20690R%20Enduro/Top-Battery-Zoom_zps8ypyqvdm.jpg.html][IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/xShakeWellx/2014%20690R%20Enduro/Top-Battery-Zoom_zps8ypyqvdm.jpg[/img][/URL]
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Re: Replacement 12v battery?
By: truck11 Date: May 23, 2016, 7:57 am
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Which battery did you go with and what is this battery
relocation you speak of ? :-)
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Re: Replacement 12v battery?
By: ShakeWell Date: May 23, 2016, 3:19 pm
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Well let's see here....
Here's the link
HTML http://www.ktmtwins.com/ktm-76512945200
to the EVO 2 kit. I
bought the "Battery Bracket Only" for $5.99 and made my own
cables as they didn't have the $14.99 option when I purchased.
However, there are two positive cables stock, one 6gauge
stranded and another that's made up of two 14g wires. So I'm not
sure what the $14.99 gets you. The 3 feet of 6g and battery
terminal-ish ends were sub-$20 at Home Depot and I had some 14g
laying around so extending the cables is pretty cheap and easy
to do. Oh, for the negative, no extension is necessary as once
you loosen the terminating ground to the frame, it'll rotate
around and reach to the new location.
I went with the higher capacity Full Spectrum P3
HTML http://www.ktmtwins.com/full-spectrum-battery
for a battery
upgrade. I've wired in a Voyager nav unit and four usb ports to
power/charge various devices, so I figured I'd go with the extra
juice of the 360.
Here's a couple more pics of it all installed:
[URL=
HTML http://s292.photobucket.com/user/xShakeWellx/media/2014%20690R%20Enduro/Top-Full_zpseovc21fd.jpg.html][IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/xShakeWellx/2014%20690R%20Enduro/Top-Full_zpseovc21fd.jpg[/img][/URL]
[URL=
HTML http://s292.photobucket.com/user/xShakeWellx/media/2014%20690R%20Enduro/Top-Battery-CloseUp_zpssawh1nrn.jpg.html][IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/xShakeWellx/2014%20690R%20Enduro/Top-Battery-CloseUp_zpssawh1nrn.jpg[/img][/URL]
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Re: Replacement 12v battery?
By: ShakeWell Date: May 23, 2016, 3:54 pm
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I forgot to mention that I've removed all the SAS stuff
including scraping the black triangle-shaped box on the inside
left front of the bike. The box collects gas/fluid expelled from
the crankcase and runs it back through the motor on the US
models. The liquid drops back into the top of the cylinder and
the gases go back into the airbox. You can see the red K&N
filter connected to the crankcase vent tube in the pics I posted
above. I used a
[URL=
HTML http://www.ktmtwins.com/ktm-690-emissions-block-off-plate-kit]block<br
/>off plate[/URL] to get ride of the inlet on the top of the
cylinder so the box was pointless to keep and came off by
scraping it off of the black cover.
Anyway, the point is, you might have trouble sticking the
battery relocation kit in that space without removing the
triangle shaped piece from that left side black cover.
So here's a shot of the P3 batter installed in the normal
battery location under the silver ecu mount:
[URL=
HTML http://s292.photobucket.com/user/xShakeWellx/media/2014%20690R%20Enduro/P3Installed_zpsbsluwle3.jpg.html][IMG]http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm16/xShakeWellx/2014%20690R%20Enduro/P3Installed_zpsbsluwle3.jpg[/img][/URL]
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