Interstate batteries
Road Warrior
Joined: Nov 2008
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From: Vancouver Island British Colombia Canada
I put a lawn tractor battery in my right side saddle bag. $50, 2 year replacement warranty & my volt meter doesn't move when I fire up the spot lights. Loads of power!
Hatch.
Hatch.
Road Master
Joined: Aug 2007
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From: Emerald Coast, FL
What you may have failed to accept is that not only matching the right battery with the proper usage is the way a battery is cared for during it's lifetime... just one complete discharge by failing to put a trickle charger on it during the winter will kill a cell.......
6th Gear
Joined: Sep 2008
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I aggree tha many things come into play that can determine battery life. But that being said the new battery was treated no better or worse than the original battery. The original had many ups and downs in it's lifetime, lights left on, tender forgotten, summer heat, winter cold. Always seemed to make it back from the dead. I even replaced it before I absolutly had to only because i thought it was time. The Interstate battery never made it completly back from a discharge it had last fall. I ran it the rest of the season and pulled it. I put it on a tender for the winter in the house. This spring it made the start but quicky failed and would not hold a charge for any length of time.
I replaced it with a Deka and added the retired interstate to a pretty good pile of interstates waiting to be recycled at the local shop.
As i stated before your mileage may vary.
I replaced it with a Deka and added the retired interstate to a pretty good pile of interstates waiting to be recycled at the local shop.
As i stated before your mileage may vary.
Last edited by bud02flstc; May 24, 2011 at 02:17 PM.
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