YamaYam
XS650 Member
I have a xs650 76 and 77 and am looking for a very lightweight, durable and reliable battery. Any suggestions?
Hi YamaYam and welcome. Wherever on Earth you are.I have a xs650 76 and 77 and am looking for a very lightweight, durable and reliable battery. Any suggestions?
If money is no object, buy Antigravity or Shorai.
If you don't feel like spending $250 on a battery, buy a lead acid one.
Hi YamaYam and welcome. Wherever on Earth you are.
Note that we don't want to know where you live just because we are nosy but also because XS650s sold in different areas ain't quite the same.
I notice you didn't add "affordable" to your list of options.
Just as well.
Lightweight, durable and reliable batteries that'll work with an XS650 and are even kinda compatible with it's spiky charging system are certainly available.
Using the list's "search" button will find all kinds of them.
But affordable? not so much. Prices start at twice the price of a lead-acid battery and keep climbing.
What I found to be the most economical is to stick with a normal lead/acid until it dies then toss it and buy another.
Thanks.
Im interested I CCA increase and weight reduction. Those lead batteries weigh a ton
Nah,
10 to 15 lbs max. You can lose that much and more weight by reducing your grocery intake.
I run a car battery in my sidecar where it's heavy weight serves as ballast and it has perhaps 10 times the CCA of the 14A/H bike battery.
Problem with getting more CCA is that no matter how little it weighs it takes a battery that's BIGGER than the stocker.
I suppose you could run a second identical lightweight battery connected in parallel to the stock sized one in the battery carrier to get
more CCA but then your battery cost is gonna double.
Gaaawwwwwddddd Frederick - cut the poor lad some slack!
...although, I must admit that I was thinking the same thing. I work with the auto industry and the only time weight really counts is when the OEMs are doing a CAFE test (unfortunately). Everyday people get all excited about lightweight this and carbon fibre that - and in the process, they usually miss the heaviest single component on the bike (or car) which has the most prospect for reduction - the lump of meat doing the driving.
Anyhow, a conventional lead acid battery weighs somewhere around 15-20 lb and as you say, a reduced grocery intake would save that much at NO cost at all - in most of us on this forum - surely, I KNOW that I could loose that much and not miss it.
Cheers,
Pete
For durable and reliable (hey, 2 out of three ain't bad!@) I have standardized on Motobatt. 2 year warranty, around $100 for almost all sizes. Sealed AGM, no leaky acid. Have 6 of them now, the oldest is 4 years old and I'm getting ready to replace it. While it's still working fine, I generally replace them at 3-4 years.
Hi Pete,
yes, I too wonder about the OP's motivation.
However, I was merely guessing about the battery weight, and if you reckon the stock XS650 battery weighs 15 - 20 lbs, so were you.
I weighed my XS650's YUASA 12N14-3A on our electronic kitchen scale. The battery weighs 9.3 lbs.
Mind you, that battery ain't well and has very little electricity left in it.
2 days after being taken off the charger it reads 8.4 Volts.
How much does electricity weigh?
YY - I gotta be honest with you and I have no axe to grind here - but saving 6 lb isn't worth much in a 400 lb motorcycle unless the saving comes at a pretty small cost.
Fred: yup - I'm not much of a guesser....I guess...
Having said that - I would venture to say that electricity is generally pretty light - except in Ontario under the Libs who have driven up the cost to absolutely nutty levels. It is so expensive here that they must have switched over the heavier grade electricity because I can't see any other reason for the huge cost hikes.
YY - I gotta be honest with you and I have no axe to grind here - but saving 6 lb isn't worth much in a 400 lb motorcycle unless the saving comes at a pretty small cost.
Fred: yup - I'm not much of a guesser....I guess...
Having said that - I would venture to say that electricity is generally pretty light - except in Ontario under the Libs who have driven up the cost to absolutely nutty levels. It is so expensive here that they must have switched over the heavier grade electricity because I can't see any other reason for the huge cost hikes.