• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Austria - About 2014 & Newer
     FE = 4st Enduro & FC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

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FE/FC battery tender

nep2012

nep2012

Husqvarna
A Class
I have a 2015 FE 350. I use a battery tender and hook it up after every ride. I have to disconnect my negative cable before I hook up the battery tender or else it starts doing strange things. The display gauges start to go on and off and I hear a clicking noise every time this happens. I cannot keep the connector on and just plug the tender cable in like I did when I had a 2012 TE 310. So after taking the cable off every time I ride I have begun to wear out the terminal plug and the top of the post coming out of the battery. Why does this happen. I know in the manual it tells you when you charge the battery to disconnect the negative terminal.
 
It's being quirky. One of my bikes does The same thing watch the light on the tender...red flash red to flash green to solid green. It's the terminals not connecting correctly sometimes they have to be put on just right.negative first then positive then plug it in
 
Mine will randomly cycle the fuel pump when hooked up to a tender. To be honest after I switched to a Lithium battery I will only use a tender if it sits for more than a few weeks, and usually will just hook it up the night before. So I'm only having to pull the seat and the cable a few times a year. I thought about just putting a disconnect inline so I could keep a tender plug wired up on it.
 
Why put a Li battery on a tender after a week of no use?? Ours sit all winter long without any issues. If there's a draw look toward the gauge or light/turn signal switch block.
 
Weantright said:
Why put a Li battery on a tender after a week of no use?? Ours sit all winter long without any issues. If there's a draw look toward the gauge or light/turn signal switch block.
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You are right. this past summer mine didn't get put on a tender once and never had an issue. I will toss mine on it a few times over the winter just for piece of mind. But like I said once I went to the Lithium I noticed that it would start just as easy as sitting for a day as it did for weeks.
 
I have one bike with the leads permanently attached, the others I connect, I don't have lithium batteries though. Summer vs winter are different stories, when it gets cold batteries tend to fail more often especially when it gets below freezing. Also I leave them connected for about a week or so at a time then take them off and switch them around...I only have two tenders and 4 batteries in bikes.
 
Brapman629 said:
Mine will randomly cycle the fuel pump when hooked up to a tender. To be honest after I switched to a Lithium battery I will only use a tender if it sits for more than a few weeks, and usually will just hook it up the night before. So I'm only having to pull the seat and the cable a few times a year. I thought about just putting a disconnect inline so I could keep a tender plug wired up on it.
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Teambowles said:
I have one bike with the leads permanently attached, the others I connect, I don't have lithium batteries though. Summer vs winter are different stories, when it gets cold batteries tend to fail more often especially when it gets below freezing. Also I leave them connected for about a week or so at a time then take them off and switch them around...I only have two tenders and 4 batteries in bikes.
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Teambowles said:
I have one bike with the leads permanently attached, the others I connect, I don't have lithium batteries though. Summer vs winter are different stories, when it gets cold batteries tend to fail more often especially when it gets below freezing. Also I leave them connected for about a week or so at a time then take them off and switch them around...I only have two tenders and 4 batteries in bikes.
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Teambowles said:
I have one bike with the leads permanently attached, the others I connect, I don't have lithium batteries though. Summer vs winter are different stories, when it gets cold batteries tend to fail more often especially when it gets below freezing. Also I leave them connected for about a week or so at a time then take them off and switch them around...I only have two tenders and 4 batteries in bikes.
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I might just go to a lithium battery before the start of next season.
 
nep2012 said:
I might just go to a lithium battery before the start of next season.
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Mite be a good idea. My stock battery started giving me problems after just a few months, others get many years. Just irritating when you drop that much money on a bike that they put a battery in it that's $20 on amazon. Not to mention I'd rather not get stuck 30 miles out with a dead battery.
 
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