• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

FE/FC More Disappointment....

Huskynoobee said:
I've had an Earth X in my 449 for at least 5-6 years. It still does the job. But I recently dropped $300 on a new Harley Davidson lithium battery for the ol Electra Glide. I was sold by the holder to adapt it perfectly into the existing battery box.

It sure cranked the bike up nicely, but I've been too busy to take it out for a proper ride. Within 3 weeks it's dropped into voltage cutoff. Now I have to get a LiFe battery tender. Not really pleased.
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Lithiums aren't known for battery drain. They are known for better cranking than lead acid batteries but also for being sluggish in freezing temps. If your battery wasn't very cold when this occurred, you most likley have a vampire battery drain. Usually its from something aftermarket connected directly to the battery instead of a keyed source.
 
MotoXImage said:
Lithiums aren't known for battery drain. They are known for better cranking than lead acid batteries but also for being sluggish in freezing temps. If your battery wasn't very cold when this occurred, you most likley have a vampire battery drain. Usually its from something aftermarket connected directly to the battery instead of a keyed source.
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Nope, no afternmarket anything.
 
MotoXImage said:
To clarify, the problem happens after it's been sitting for awhile or during a ride?
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As stated in the original post, it had sat for a week. But I beg to differ on the statement about lithium batteries not being known for battery drain. I think they don't hold a charge like lead acid batteries, and also don't like to be "cycled" too low and then charged up. Lead acid batteries seem to be more forgiving about being recharged after sitting a while and going low. I discussed this on other forums, and it seemed to be at least somewhat well known agreement that lithium batteries can go down without much warning.
 
I have read several articles on this subject and the following echoes similar findings. This is from October 2019 so it's current, no punn intended. I hope you'll take a look. Typically whenever there is something new, myths begin to surface and time weeds them out.

https://www.motorcycle.com/products/lithium-motorcycle-batteries-myths-vs-realities

Is a modern lithium battery or good old lead acid battery best for you?

  1. Yes Lithium batteries are more reliable by a factor of several times. (Although it's very early days yet our user poll shows that around 14% of lead batteries fail in the first two years and 25% have failed by the end of the third year.
  2. Even lithium batteries without an inbuilt BMS have failure rates well under 1/3 of lead acid battery failure rates.
  3. http://www.fastbikegear.co.nz/index.php?main_page=page&id=18&chapter=1
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My '08 TE 510 I bought new, welded its battery to the seat pan from it's vibes. The battery got replaced under warranty, with an oem lead acid, along with a new '09 battery tray. That battery went about 7 years before I had to replace it. No battery tender or nothing.

Must be the Italian in it. :)

Hopefully my new Italian beauty treats me as well.

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XLEnduroMan said:
My '08 TE 510 I bought new, welded its battery to the seat pan from it's vibes. The battery got replaced under warranty, with an oem lead acid, along with a new '09 battery tray. That battery went about 7 years before I had to replace it. No battery tender or nothing.

Must be the Italian in it. :)

Hopefully my new Italian beauty treats me as well.

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Thats a beautiful bike.
Any lead acid battery that goes 7 years is far outside normal so yes, your one of the lucky ones.

If your home survived like your battery has, your definatly on the lucky side. A high school friend lost her home there and moved to Oregon. I'm also a bit lucky. 2007 we lost 184 homes in my neighborhood. The fire stopped 3 homes from my backyard, burned a home on the left and the right of mine.
 
Huskynoobee said:
I've had an Earth X in my 449 for at least 5-6 years. It still does the job. But I recently dropped $300 on a new Harley Davidson lithium battery for the ol Electra Glide. I was sold by the holder to adapt it perfectly into the existing battery box.

It sure cranked the bike up nicely, but I've been too busy to take it out for a proper ride. Within 3 weeks it's dropped into voltage cutoff. Now I have to get a LiFe battery tender. Not really pleased.
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Here's something you might be interested in from a Harley Guy.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDgUPSTYYL8&t=121s
 
MotoXImage said:
I carry a capacitor just in case the battery dies. It won't start it, but it will provide enough volts to get it bumped or kickstarted.
If your bike has a Recluse Auto Clutch, use a 4mm allen and turn the slave freeplay screw back to the starting point. Also make sure to count how many turns it took so you can reset it after the bike is running.
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Where did you get the capacitor - What brand? Thanks
 
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