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Need a battery for A Norden 901 and thinking about a lithium. Is it that much better and which brand are people liking.
 
My Africa Twin came with one and I'm quite happy with it 4 years on. I wouldn't buy the OEM one again, as it's insanely priced, but it's definitely stay lithium. Way more forgiving if being discharged. I've left the key on two or three times in the garage. It charges back up and keeps on working.
 
I have a Noco NLP20 (barlely fits) on my K1600.
Bike seems to spin over a lot faster, but have only had it for a little over 6 months.

I actually have an extra one (NLP14) that I bought for my brothers bike, but he had bought a battery and did not tell me, so it is sitting in my garage. I am planning on putting it on my generator.
 
I've had 4 shorai and 2 nocos. Never trickle charging is a godsend. Shorai's cost more, but I've had great customer support, needed due to user error (super deep discharge). I had to return one noco, but that process was fairly easy thru Amazon. I guess my overall opinion is: I'll never buy another lead acid battery.
 
blupupher said:
I have a Noco NLP20
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My FJR is due for a battery.

I like the NOCO tender in my boat. Didn't know they sold batteries. Thanks!

They are less expensive than I thought / heard.

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wow - any details about how that happened? Or just found it like that one day?
 
Jeff S said:
wow - any details about how that happened? Or just found it like that one day?
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John Bennett said:
What happened ?!
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Headed home from EOM RIDE in the Houston area on 59 south when the battery exploded and caught on 🔥... Got the seat off and battery out but not before it smoked the main wiring harness and the ECM... All of which live in close proximity to the battery in a HD Heritage Softtail...
 We run Battery Tender and Shoria brand lithium batteries in the rest of the Shed bikes...
 We also were swayed by the price of the noco...
Carry On 😎
 
Pedro 2.0 said:
YMMV, my experience with NOCO was not the best... Still rewiring the Trike...
 We have lithium batteries in the rest of the Shed Bikes without problems (knock on wood) just not NOCO brand...
Carry On😎
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I had my first lipo fire with a little tic tac sized lipo for my mini rc bird. I had no idear what I was doing, I screwed up charging or over charging it out side and then the little lit up and glowed like a little sun. Me being dumb held it in my hand then this black smoke was oozing out, I dropped the hot little *** and stomped it out. LOL! Those little suckers are dangerous.
 
Not trying to bash, just a casual observation I have had, but seems a lot of the issues I have read about with NOCO (and other lithium batteries) is with (pre-2010ish) Harley's.
I have seen a few issues with some older 4 wheelers as well.
Not sure if it is just a coincidence or what.
 
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I like my AntiGravity in my Tenere. It comes with an onboard charge controller to avoid over charge/discharge situations. That extra cost was worth it to have that feature, at least to me.
 
Lithium Ion batteries is a broad term, which includes LiFePo4 batteries.
Shoai are LiFePo4.
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Shorai, SHORAI LFX POWER SPORT BATTERIES / VPM Tech s.r.o.
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My wife’s fz07 battery just died, $120 for a replacement Yuesa (gel battery), $200 for a lithium battery or on Amazon, $32 for a Weize gel battery. No idea how reliable Weize is as I have not used them before, but for $30 I decided to try that. Love the idea of a lighter Lithium battery, just not willing to put that kind of money into one..
 
Thrasherg said:
Love the idea of a lighter Lithium battery, just not willing to put that kind of money into one..
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The greater benefit of lithium is the superior service life.

I run my big-amp HAM Radios on LiFePo batteries that are 10 years old and still going strong.

Calculate for Lead Acid:

( Price divided by Months of Service ) = Cost per Month

Calculate for LiFePo:

( Price divided by Months of Service ) = Cost per Month
 
If you discharge beyond a certain point they don't recover. And its not that deep of a discharge that kills it, so a trickle charger is required, or a bike with ultra low parasitic drain. The couple I had on bikes about 10 years ago did not outlast lead either despite the claims. Maybe they are better now?
 
William Wolfen said:
A good one should have circuitry onboard to prevent over charging or discharging the battery.
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Exactly. The two in our dirt bikes are something like 4-5 years old and still going strong. Both of them are good ones with onboard battery management systems. They never get hooked up to trickle chargers, and sometimes go a month between uses but always fire right up. Meanwhile, I had always put the best lead acid battery I could find in my Tenere, and like clockwork that thing would be dead in 24 months and not want to start the bike. It now as a good Lithium battery in it and we shall see how it goes.
 
Thrasherg said:
My wife’s fz07 battery just died, $120 for a replacement Yuesa (gel battery), $200 for a lithium battery or on Amazon, $32 for a Weize gel battery. No idea how reliable Weize is as I have not used them before, but for $30 I decided to try that. Love the idea of a lighter Lithium battery, just not willing to put that kind of money into one..
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I am still using cheap AGMs priced similar to this one in all my bikes. I get 2 to 5 years out of one. If I have to buy 2 or 3 of them in 10 years it's a whole lot cheaper than one lithium assuming the lithium lasts the same 10 years. Not to mention that the charging systems in my old vintage bikes are not lithium friendly.
 
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