Battery Tender Help Needed
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From: Utah
Papa if it's too melted to use and not causing a problem you could wrap it up under the side cover and install a new one to the battery. Or you could cut the bad end off the one you have and splice a new end on. If it were mine I'd solder a new end on and cover the splice with good heat shrink.
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From: Plover, WI
Still needs to be wired to the bike as mentioned in post #13.
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From: Florida
Andy I believe he is referring to 281B.
Papa if it's too melted to use and not causing a problem you could wrap it up under the side cover and install a new one to the battery. Or you could cut the bad end off the one you have and splice a new end on. If it were mine I'd solder a new end on and cover the splice with good heat shrink.
Papa if it's too melted to use and not causing a problem you could wrap it up under the side cover and install a new one to the battery. Or you could cut the bad end off the one you have and splice a new end on. If it were mine I'd solder a new end on and cover the splice with good heat shrink.
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From: Manitoba
Hooking the tender to the post on the starter is just the same as hooking to the battery. Geez,we've even explained that you can jump start a bike by putting the postive jumper cable on the starter post. If anything,his tender connector melted because somebody tried to jump start it with the tender connector.
The solenoid is connected directly to the battery - there is no fusing for the starter.
This is a permanently 'hot' connection point - the same as connecting directly to the battery 'pos' connection terminal.
Great for a tender connection point but the worst for jumping - the light gauge wire of the tender would vaporize.
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From: Indianapolis
Just electronic hum of the transformer. Not all of them do it. One of mine makes more of a high pitch squeal, and the other one is silent.
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From: St.Louis Mo.
I have both the newer style and the older transformer style Tenders. The newer style makes a pulsing type noise though my siren on the bike. Drove me crazy for awhile until i located it. I use one of the older tenders on my bike for now. I guess i will have to pull my siren when i no longer have any of the older tenders left.
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From: England
I have a 2017 Sportster with keyless ignition and alarm. I got the tender when I got the bike. Mine doesn't make any noises through the tender or alarm on the bike.
Are you sure you don't have some kind of fault?
Are you sure you don't have some kind of fault?