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Battery is due for the bin after almost 6 years on my SH300i. Not surprised as battery gets a hard life with long periods of inactivity and mixture of long and short runs. If it were easier to access, I would connect my trickle charger, but am now paying the price for laziness I guess.
So, any recommendations please for not breaking the bank at dealers?
Looking at Powerline YTZ125 at about £35 delivered--any good?

I'd be tempted to go with a Motobatt (MBTX9U I think) based on my own experience.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Motobatt-MBTX9 ... B0085DZAAE

I don't use my SH300 copy all that much either so to ease connecting to a charger I wired up a cigarette lighter socket, via a fuse,direct to the battery and made the charger connectable to a male plug.Makes it dead easy.

Capitano wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 09, 2018 3:55 pm

I'd be tempted to go with a Motobatt (MBTX9U I think) based on my own experience.

My sentiments exactly.

Thanks for suggestions, I'll look at the battery and make more of an effort to sort static charging.
My maintenance charger did come with a fly lead to connect externally--I will have to find it.

JohnS wrote: ↑

Fri Mar 09, 2018 4:02 pm

I don't use my SH300 copy all that much either so to ease connecting to a charger I wired up a cigarette lighter socket, via a fuse,direct to the battery and made the charger connectable to a male plug.Makes it dead easy.

Suggested battery ordered. Can I ask where you put the female part of the charger lead on the bike please--under the seat or mounted to the body work somewhere with a rubber cover?

I have lost touch with bike values now, so what are these beauties fetching now on the 2nd hand market? Mine is a '12 with 5 1/2 thousand miles only?
Looked on Ebay and they are peanuts?

I tried under the seat for the female socket,but eventually decided the best place was the side of the rear foot well.My battery is situated under the base of the foot well,so the wiring ran under the bike,up through the space in front of the engine , through the grill and mounted at the right side.I can run satnav and phone charger from it.It came with a rubber cover.
I wouldn't think the scooter's worth much at all.It only cost £1300 new,2 years ago,and only has 2700 miles on it.

midget wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 10, 2018 12:24 pm

Suggested battery ordered. Can I ask where you put the female part of the charger lead on the bike please--under the seat or mounted to the body work somewhere with a rubber cover?

I know its nice to have a plug in trickle, I had one on my C90 when it had a (new) Yuasa battery connected to an Optimate. When that battery died I replaced it with the Motobatt (about a year ago) but left the lead off the bike. Seems to hold it's charge without it, the bike has long dormant periods, last one for 3 months, started instantly using elec start.

Just saying.

I think Optimates kill small batteries if left connected all the time.

Use of a timer plug helps.

The Enfield kills batteries as the motor is supposed to have a 44AH battery to deliver the starting current, Dynavolt lasts longer than Motobatt

Thanks for replies. Not too much trouble taking 2 screws and a plastic cover off really--I'll connect to charger when I plan to use it in future.