{"id":122,"date":"2013-04-25T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/tips\/?p=122"},"modified":"2013-04-25T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T16:22:49","slug":"make-sure-your-motorcycle-battering-is-charging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/make-sure-your-motorcycle-battering-is-charging\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Sure Your Motorcycle Battering is Charging"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trouble Shooting Motorcycle Battery Charging<\/h1>\n
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Getting Ready for Spring Part 3: Make Sure it Charges<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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\"multi-meter<\/a>What good is cleaning everything up and getting ready to ride if your charging system is bad? As we are preparing for the first ride of the season we are going to need to test our motorcycle battery charging\u00a0. Don\u2019t\u00a0worry, making sure your motorsport vehicle or motorcycle battery is charging is fairly easy. First off, if your machine comes with an on\u00a0board voltmeter, do NOT trust it! I know some bikes out there have very reliable voltmeters but you\u00a0don’t want to risk a tow home because of it. A quality multi-meter<\/a>\"\" is a great addition to any tool box.<\/div>\n
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So once you have the multi-meter out, you want to set it to DC volts. Make sure you can access the\u00a0battery post easily and start your machine up. When it is idling, check the volts at the battery. Anything\u00a0from about 13.2-14.8 volts is a good test. Check it at 2-3K RPM and again 4-5K RPM. Same results?<\/div>\n
Great! If you\u2019re not getting at least 13.2 volts or you\u2019re testing out at anything above 15.2 then you\u00a0have a charging issue. For help on how to find out what\u2019s wrong your system, check out our Youtube\u00a0videos or give us a call.<\/div>\n
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Just to review our Getting Ready for Spring<\/a> posts, make sure you have a good battery, clean and grease\u00a0the major connectors, and verify that the bike is charging. Not many people think about their charging\u00a0or starting systems until they fail, but by following these few simple steps you can greatly reduce the risk\u00a0of having one or both systems fail on you. If you do run into any problems or you get stuck trying to find\u00a0the right part, just visit our website. Our entire catalog is online along with our helpful tech videos. If\u00a0you are still stumped after that then give us a call. Happy riding!!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trouble Shooting Motorcycle Battery Charging Getting Ready for Spring Part 3: Make Sure it Charges What good is cleaning everything up and getting ready to ride if your charging system is bad? As we are preparing for the first ride of the season we are going to need to test our motorcycle battery charging\u00a0. Don\u2019t\u00a0worry,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[28,34,30,35,36],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-how-to","tag-battery","tag-charging-sys","tag-getting-ready-for-spring","tag-motorcycle-battery-charging","tag-multi-meter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ricksmotorsportelectrics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}