This weekend hasn't been good for me or my quads, first I cant get my honda running, and now its the bruin.


When I try to start it, I just get a loud buzzing noise from near the battery. I figured it just needed a charge, but when I threw the charger on it, it wasn't drawing any amps. So I tested the voltage and its just above 12V. If I pull start it, it starts and runs fine, but you can't start it electrically.

So I'm guessing its just a bad battery, right? I may have over-done it last year by using the winch a lot and running the trail lights at the same time.

So does this sound like a bad battery? Good voltage, but it wont supply enough amperage to get it cranking? The weird thing is, if I put the charger on it and throw it on the "start" setting, it isn't putting out any load until I hit the starter, then it pegs it around 50 amps.....but it still wont start just buzzing, so that's making me think maybe it's the starter?

I haven't touched this thing since early summer, and it was doing the same thing back then. If I run it for a while, it will try to start, but its like the battery doesn't have enough capability to provide the amperage to get it to crank over, so it just starts buzzing again.

Any ideas here guys?

 

try taking the battery out of your other quad to see if it is a battery issue. If it starts w/ the other battery, then you know its your battery.