Ok I'm mounting the new smaller sized anti gravity Lithium battery, its the YTX12-24 720 CCA battery, in my 2002 dyna superglide. The battery obviously is smaller in dimension. I used foamboard for packing to keep battery fitted nice and tight, no movement . So any suggestions for this setup or anyone have any ideas of another way of doing this or see any issues?

 

Question on the battery;

I use lithium batteries on my cordless tools and they work very well, however the one thing that I don't like is when it's out of power it just dies without any indicator.

This isn't an issue with cordless tools because I have 4 batteries, but on a bike how do you know if the lithium battery is going out, does it just die?

My 4 year old HD battery needs to be replaced.
I can tell because after a few days of sitting without the tender it's slow to start the bike.

 

That foam board stuff tends to squeak a lot, when moving around. And it will compress and then won't fit well. I would suggest using some high density insulation foam or other type of closed cell rubber that you can pack in there. I have some sheet Rubatex that works great for something like that.

 

Not real concerned about battery going dead. For your battery I would ask around though . I needed the AG Lithium for the CCA's.

 

Thanks, that is a good idea with the rubber.

 

Another thing about the type of foam you used is that if it gets wet it will retain the moisture and probably start causing corrosion issues.

 

Check out Shorai battery.


As to the foam, I'd look for a dense closed cell foam at a hobby store. I have some from an upholstery store that is handy, and was reasonably priced.


If you get a Shorai, it comes with the foam needed to secure the battery properly.

 

I would love one of these batteries myself because of their lite weight, but I've heard the same thing. If your bike starts pretty quickly it's fine, but after a few seconds it falls off fast. Maybe we will find out on this thread.

 

I've only ran the bike yesterday for first time and innitial start up wasn;t happening until I turned off one of the decompressions on each cylinder but this put the battery to the test and although I didn;t let it turn over more than a half dozen revolutions at a time , the battery did perform excellent.

 

For the price of a lithium battery, unless I need the space I think I'll stick with traditional batteries until perhaps the technology becomes more commonplace.

That being said I think this is the future.