why should I ask? This thread is about motorcycle so stick with motorcycle topic, not car. Use your common sense.
Quit whine and battery issue is battery issue. Deal with it.
huh what? why are you talking about a mechanical failure? That's a completely different subject. If your alternator is bad, then your motorcycle or car will most likely cannot function.
What mechanical?
$245 battery tester? utterly useless for 99.9999% of us. who wants to spend 30 min to take the cover out and measure for CCA and electrolyte? If it needs some electrolyte - I'll pour some Gatorade in it :roll:
Quit whine about spend 30min to take the cover out. Everyone do that. Only take it off when you notice something wrong. What if voltmeter tell you that battery failed then you still spend 30min to take the cover out. What your point?
$245? gimme a break. My mechanic uses some simple
$20 multimeter from radio shack that's much older than your dogs' ages combined. My other car mechanic uses same thing. Imagine if I told him that I bought a $245 battery tester. He would kick me out and say - go to dealership, rich boy.
Then your mechanic is very simple for electricity.
Mind you - he has extensive mechanic experience with over 20 years. He was originally a commercial truck mechanic. He can fix any vehicles and motorcycles. He is a highly-respected and knowledgeable mechanic around here. You might learn a thing or two from him thru me.
Eww. $20 then your mechanic is electricity basic. The commercial truck mechanic with $20 multimeter. I don't believe you. I saw few students bought a cheap $20-$60 and not really very well and not correct to read like 0.05volts. Sometime, they borrom my DMM Fluke 88 or their teacher's Fluke 89. They really love it and few days later. They got Fluke like us.
I've never heard of anybody interested in knowing how much CCA and electrolyte the battery has. For heaven's sake.... we're just some regular Joe enjoying our days riding around. Voltmeter's good enough and that's optional. Again - if it's low on electrolyte, I'll pour some Gatorade in :roll:
You never heard of that because no one care about battery's deep statue. Just wild guess by replace a battery then see if solve a problem or not. The multimeter still tell you error info.
The primary purpose for a
simple voltmeter is to monitor your voltage level so you can monitor if your aftermarket accessories are drawing too much power from motorcycle. It's typically 14V - more or less. It is common especially during cold season for accessories to eat more juice than the alternator can recharge which will cause your voltage to drop. The voltmeter will warn the rider. That is the primary purpose of voltmeter. It's not a battery checker or alternator checker or whatever.
ok.
If the alternator is bad, your bike will most likely not work. You will not be able to start it. If it did start, you will not be able to ride it because of misfiring or whatever. Again - voltmeter's purpose is to monitor your voltage level. that's it. very simple. purely electrical.
The alternator failed cause engine wont start? Nope. In fact, engine can start without alternator. The engine can run around around 10-30 min depend on CCA till battery run out then slow down then shut down. Get a fact.
Faulty alternator is a mechanical issue. it has nothing to do with voltmeter or battery. Voltmeter's job is to tell you the voltage of your bike at its current state. that's it.
Yes, the alternator is part of electricity and it do matter for battery.
there's no such thing as voltmeter with built-in jump-starter. Voltmeter is a simple device that connects to power source and tells you the voltage. that's it. Again - go buy a motorcycle first and see for yourself on how to jump-start it. let me know how long it takes for you to do that.
LOL, I was joke about voltmeter with built-in jump-starter. I don't believe you fall of that.
Like I said - if your motorcycle went dead and you need to jump-start it... you need to get a jumper cable to connect to your battery, right? so how are you gonna do that? you have to take the cover out, right? But problem is - the motorcycle doesn't have "pop-the-hood" thing. You need to remove several screws and nudge it around to remove the stubborn cover.. jump-start it... and then fiddle the stubborn cover back in and screw it in. that's a 30-min job and I feel sorry for others if it takes longer than that because of the way their motorcycle is designed.
Easy, Jump-starter dont mean direct to battery. You can do other way without touch a battery. I did that before from other car before because I can't pop the rear door off due lock power by electric. Sure, I can do under two minutes Learn about trick.
Like that.
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if the voltmeter tells me that voltage is low... then I simply connect battery tender when I get home and leave it overnight. The voltmeter can tell you BEFORE battery goes dead overnite after you park.
You still spend 30min to remove the cover off for recharger. Right?
cool. a kick-start dirt bike. did you know most of (or probably ALL) dirt motorcycles are not street-legal? 99.999% of us here in this thread do not ride dirt bike. But Gruumer does. thanks for useless information.
I did made sure it's a match for VL800. It would take 14 or a bit more days to arrive. Seller informed me that it's been shipped.
