bnschroder
2014 Super Tenere ES
Last Sunday I almost got stranded in the middle of the Cohutta Wilderness in Northwest Georgia with a dead battery on my CRF250L. I was 20 miles away from the nearest paved road and further from any gas station or auto store. Bike has started happily all day and all of a sudden dead display, no lights, dead!
My buddy fortunately had a jump pack but the bike wasn't running well (had to keep revs up at all times, and it would stall often and then needed to be bumped) and eventually I couldn't even bump it anymore. But at that point we had fortunately reached civilization again.
Someone on the ADVRider CRF250L thread suggested packing a capacitor as emergency backup to put in place instead of a battery when your battery dies. You can't start the bike with it, but apparently it lets it run smoothly and protects the charging system. But unfortunately the guy didn't know details because he wasn't speaking from own experience. Since then I found a YouTube video of a guy bumping his Tenere 700 with a 25V 10,000 Microfarad capacitor that then ran happily.
I figured this forum has some of the most savy MC technicians with real electrical engineering experience, so I would pop the question here:
Anybody packing a capacitor as emergency battery backup and what specs you use?
Thank you
My buddy fortunately had a jump pack but the bike wasn't running well (had to keep revs up at all times, and it would stall often and then needed to be bumped) and eventually I couldn't even bump it anymore. But at that point we had fortunately reached civilization again.
Someone on the ADVRider CRF250L thread suggested packing a capacitor as emergency backup to put in place instead of a battery when your battery dies. You can't start the bike with it, but apparently it lets it run smoothly and protects the charging system. But unfortunately the guy didn't know details because he wasn't speaking from own experience. Since then I found a YouTube video of a guy bumping his Tenere 700 with a 25V 10,000 Microfarad capacitor that then ran happily.
I figured this forum has some of the most savy MC technicians with real electrical engineering experience, so I would pop the question here:
Anybody packing a capacitor as emergency battery backup and what specs you use?
Thank you