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Old Jul 30, 2009 | 07:15 PM
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I'm new to Harleys 19 just bought a 80 softail for $350, heres the problem I bought a new batt put it in and rode it less than a 1/8 of a mile it died. pushed it home put the jump pac on it started right up and the second i took the jump pac off it died out did this a few times and at a lost here any ideas what gone wrong here thank in advanced
 
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Old Jul 30, 2009 | 07:27 PM
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350 franklins!! Wow!!
Sounds like either the stator, regulator, or both.
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Old Jul 30, 2009 | 10:22 PM
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Sounds like a bad battery to me. I do not think a good battery would go dead that fast even if the charging circuit was bad. A fully charged battery will run you quite a ways before it dies. You did charge the battery before you put it in the bike didn't you?
 
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Old Jul 31, 2009 | 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Jim Kraft
Sounds like a bad battery to me. I do not think a good battery would go dead that fast even if the charging circuit was bad. A fully charged battery will run you quite a ways before it dies. You did charge the battery before you put it in the bike didn't you?
Yes I did charge the battery and i tested it with load tester too and it good, with bike running the load tester is only reading bad, the load tester is only a cheap red yellow green light tester but it works
 
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On a fully charged batt over night it discharges the batt and I al so did this with truck batt and it killed the my truck batt
 
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