Optimate & Battery Chargers

The GSXRs I used to have all had alarms. These always seemed to kill the battery over winter and during lengthy periods of non-use. It's not quite the same problem with my superduke though as a) it doesn't have an alarm and b) I just wanna be out riding it all the time.

Anyway.....the owners manual says the battery should be disconnected from the bike - or at least the earth taken off - when putting it on charge. I was thinking of cabling the bike up so I could simply just plug it in to keep the battery nice and cosy.

Anyone else already got their bike hooked up to a Optimate or the like and anyone experienced any problems. THE last thing I want t do is fry the electrics on it.

Thanks,

Simon.

Mines on an Optimate all the time I'm not riding, summer, winter the lot. No problems after 2 years.

Optimate is prob one of the best things to buy for your bike..... had mine for about 8 years now,been on several different bikes,just connect it up every time i put the bike away and i know it will be fully charged and ready to go the next time i want to use it......saved myself as ive never had to replace a battery since,did many years ago on a Honda NC30 which cost me £90....... learned my lesson then.

I'm assuming that an Optimate is the same thing as a Battery Tender? Trickle charger, that monitors the charge level and cuts out when its topped, only coming on again when they charge drops below a set level.

If this is the case, they are worth their weight in GOLD.

I use the optimate when I remember (about once a month or so).

I have never yet had any battery problems in 2 years

Is your hair receading? I'm worried.

This thread duke of dork his joy doest spread!

his wity words are now in my head,

and joe doest ponder his intended yeild does yet?

for where he hides within his head.....

the notion of which the wires he had said......

joe wants to know the hook up dread

for the charging of thyne battery dead?

for charging of his battery thread,

this we all must do this periodically as said.

and joe will try to stick to topic thread...

Please tell Duke of dork...

I know joe falls far from the rhyming ledge from which has been born and bred into yer bones, please excuse my newness, kind people.