• 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 The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.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!

Turntech, so far so good...

Motosportz

Motosportz

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Got a Turntech bat for the TXC. WOW it is small / lite. Very cool. Clears a bunch of space for the air filter. Has cool binding posts. I had to replace the bolts with M5 for the smallish eyes on the husky. (everything on this bike seem 3/4 sized) Wired up the tether for the MR16 helmet light (a great light for the woods) 42 degrees out, MR16 on for about two minutes hit the button, spins hard and fires right up. Even with the light on, fuel pump cycling and cold out it fired up several times very EZ. meter so no drop in votage and holds a steady 13 or so regardless of what is going on. Nice. Jake has some hours on his no issues. Time will tell but this looks like a winner product.

:thumbsup:
 
Kelly,
I'm sure it has been posted somewhere but could you post up the weight savings between the two. :thumbsup:

It does sound like a perfect transition to take.
 
I've heard nothing but excellent things about Turntech batteries. Local guy here uses a 5.0 in his 2007 te510 and I believe for that bike it was a wise choice. Everyone else seems to use the 2.5.

Someday my stock battery in my 2006 te250 will need replacing. :lol:
 
I have the TurnTech 2.5 for a few months now and it works great! I think it's about a 3 pound savings too(note I don't have mine in a case).
 
Motosportz;62606 said:
Got a Turntech bat for the TXC. WOW it is small / lite. Very cool. Clears a bunch of space for the air filter. Has cool binding posts. I had to replace the bolts with M5 for the smallish eyes on the husky. (everything on this bike seem 3/4 sized) Wired up the tether for the MR16 helmet light (a great light for the woods) 42 degrees out, MR16 on for about two minutes hit the button, spins hard and fires right up. Even with the light on, fuel pump cycling and cold out it fired up several times very EZ. meter so no drop in votage and holds a steady 13 or so regardless of what is going on. Nice. Jake has some hours on his no issues. Time will tell but this looks like a winner product.

:thumbsup:
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How'd you go about securing it in?
 
I tried a 2.5 my TE450, it was a bit weak starting the bike when it was cold outside. I switch to the 5.0AHr and it works great. It would have been nice to have the smaller size of the 2.5. I still have huge weight saving over the stock battery.
 
I tried the 2.5 in my 08 TE250 and it just didn't have enough to keep from sagging too low for the ECU/EFI to be happy, exchanged for the 5.0 and now it's all super happy.

I used velcro and two zip ties around the battery to secure it, then velcro'd PC V and AT to battery.
 
I have the 2.5 in my '09 txc250. This morning it fired right up with it ~ 30 deg in the garage and the bike's been sitting for 3 weeks un-ridden.
 
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