New Zongshen RX3 (ZS250GY-3) Dual Sport

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Originally Posted by G19Tony

I put a pigtail on the battery, like I do with all my bikes. It's been on a BatteryMinder charger/conditioner for a few days. I finished up changing the oil and tried to start the bike. It wouldn't even run the fuel pump. I removed the battery, and it was bubbling out from the left side. It was accepting a charge, but the bubbling is disconcerting. I ordered a WPS battery for the bike. I have one on the Grom, and it works a treat!

490-2517 is the replacement for the OEM battery.

http://www.wps-inc.com/catalogs/stre...PAGEGO=Page%23

Boil over is usually due to too powerful a charger. If a charger has enough output to boil the battery it is way too powerful to use as a maintainer. Don't yet know the capacity of a Cyclone battery, but a lead acid should not be charged at a rate over 10% of it's rated Amp Hours (AH). I know a TW battery is 7AH, so that battery should not be charged at a rate above 0.7 amps (700milliamps). The Honda 550 battery is rated only 12AH, which would indicate a max charge rate of 1.2 amps. It's really hard to find a charger that small.

I have a lamp timer that has switches around the clock every 10 minutes. One on, five off, cycles the maintainer 10 minutes each hour, which is plenty to keep a healthy battery with a 10% maintainer charged, with lots of down time to be sure the battery has a chance to cool down between charge sessions.

!0% of AH is the most batteries should be charged. My big truck has 12 Group 27 batteries that provide 432 AH capacity, and all are kept charged by a 10 amp (2.3%) auto charger/maintainer on a timer set 10 minutes on, 50 minutes off, and the electronic on bored recorder, GPS tracker, fuel offset pump, anti-theft, and other electrics and electronics are left on.

Vehicle batteries like it slow and gentle, over an extended period of time.