just a piece of useless info ( some of u will know from past threads that i look at things differently)

I have gone through 5 of the yasa bomb batteries and so i started to get a little annoyed. I took two of them to the centuary technician and had them cut apart ...both of them had broken in odd places.

By the look of the damage the technician concluded that vibration had destroyed the batteries.

I then bought a new battery for a honda 400ex , it is quite a bit smaller but still has 9 cranking amps in it . Then we packed some of that dense rubber foam stuff ( similar to those camp rolls u use on the ground ) behind , and on top and underneath of the battery in the holder.

2 yrs later and not one issue for me or the other 20 or so people i have suggested this too.

Simply put the bomb has a major vibration and with the battery mounted to the frame u will always have problems with that system .

good luck .

 

ya the yuasa batts cant handle vibration (id be 75% + of the dead batts on a DS are dead from vibration)

i beleive the odyssey has 12+ amps ? (i dont remember, but i was just looking at it and it said if it was below 12.5 or somthing like that it wasnt at full charge) maybe it cant actually give all 12 to the starter?

all i know is i can crank my ds for a LOT longer with this batt than i ever could a nearly new fully charged yuasa.

 

i went to walmart and baught a slightly smaller battery for 40 bucks and my quad sites for days at a time on below 30 degree weather and fires right up

 

it is a everstart model es12bs for 44.94 it is the same hight and width just a little shorter i put a peice of styrofoam on the end to fill it on works great, oh yeah the positive and negative are on the opposite sides as a stock ds battery but there is plenty of lenght to move them good luck man

 

Man that's good to know, I'm on my third yuasa. The last one was almost new when it gave up the ghost on my first day of a riding trip. I paid $87 for this one and I don't trust it.

 

Sweet...My buddy had some problems with those batteries...I'm going with sun....You can't break a dry/gel cell battery fom vibes!!!!

 

my everstart is a wet cell but it has a 6 month warranty nationwide, if it pukes bring it back for free lol

 

6 months is not bad but the Odyssey PC545 has a 2 year full replacement warranty

 

Thats fine if it pukes in your driveway but what if it breaks in BFE and you don't have jumpers or tow rope? [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-disgusted.gif[/img]

BTW, when I quoted 75.00 and 5.00 shipping, I was going on memory (much less reliable then the DS[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img] ) I did pay the quoted price on the web site

I guess I do have a line on a good price. I was quoted 58.00 by my local dealer but then again I usually get some sort of discount there.

 

Problem with the bomb electrical system is that when your battery dies , the bike wont run , and being the heavy beast she is she is hard to tow ... !!!!!!!!

Trust me ...i have been there ..... [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-sad.gif[/img]