Smaller batteries, tray space ideas

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Employing a Motobatt to create space for essential service time tools....

 
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The SFQ is using a tiny high-CCA Li-ion battery and I have loads of space in the cavity that remains. Like LED lighting is for illumination, it's a revolution in power storage. Running an alternator makes it possible, as only starting is asked of the battery, pretty much.
 
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Thank you! I expected a surge of creative ideas regarding the available space around the smaller batteries ;-)
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I keep an electrical repair kit in the spare space. It's a dilly bag (Australian term for cloth pouch with a draw-string) containing a small multimeter, butane soldering iron and some resin cored solder, some coiled-up lengths of electrical wire, insulation tape, spade and bullet connectors, fuses, globes, etc.
 
I am sure many use the extra space for some tools. I put a small socket set in there.
Brand I have is Bahco and is marketed here as a motorcycle tool kit. Protected by some rags it slides nicely in beside the small battery. It is also good quality and very handy!! Pics show size..........
 

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I have used a 120 type batterr in TOG for decades, just because they are (or were) easier to obtain, and very cheap from my local auto factors, the extra space? I use it to carry a spare inner tube, but be warned, if you do this, take it out of the box every now and then, as they perish and will crack where they are folded, I discovered this before I needed it, thankfully, also, when I ran my Egli on the road, (750 SF1 engine) it used a tiny battery intended for a honda 400/4, about the size of three fag packets, it cranked the motor very well and never let me down, it was never supposed to be able to work the starter, but it did it very well, it has to be said that both twins and triples are hugely "over batteried"
 
Detail things have moved on quite a bit from this photo, but they layout still remains the same. Quite a bit of room can be made avaiable on an SF. A tool roll sits vertcically behind the battery (held away from the DMC box).

 
it your heart out Matt H, thats a tidy installation, and from Hagface, exactly what I would have expected to see.
Clem
 
Shit the battery space on my 70 750 SF0 is like 5x7x7" - You can put one hell of a big SUV Accessory Acid Core battery in her.

Really no battery Acid or AGM lasts for more then 2 years with a Generator ;o)

Get 3 or even 4 years outta a Motorcycle Battery your in OZ ;o)

You could lucky to get away with a Hi-Capacity Discharge Condenser Battery - Never tried it - I dependent more on a push from a Bar Maid.
 
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piranha-bro2 said:
Does your starter cable go through that, Todd? I'm hoping the chunky starter relay I'm using of a big Jap bike will be reliable and never stick on!
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Hi Mate, yes it does, between starter relay and starter motor. I was worried the relay may stick, so this was my way of putting a switch I could easily get to , to kill it. I talked with Tippie, he did a little research and checked out the relay and thinks it should work, but insurance is a good thing
 
its a relay,, just that same type used by triples, about 80amp I believe, but any relay has contacts and contacts can stick, I have used a proper starter solenoid, from a car, mine is generic English, from a Land Rover, Mini, Metro etc, and it has a coil which moves a lump of iron, that then links the heavy starter cables to crank the motor, cost about £15, lasts twenty years, changed mine about five years ago, the solenoid also has various terminals that can be useful, such as power on 24/7 power on only when ignition live, and a voltage bypass to give 12 volts after the ignition resistors (drop voltage to circa 9v) for better starting, but only when cranking.
CLEM
 
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