Hi
I’m in the market for a new battery and have been hearing some good things about Motobatt batteries (bright yellow ones!).
As the Motobatt batteries are AGM technology as opposed to the typical lead acid types, I just need some advice as to charging.
I’ve read various bits and bobs about difficulties charging and maintaining Motobatts, and the need for a charger that can charge & maintain it correctly without ruining the battery.
I would be fitting the battery to my other bike which doesn’t get ridden daily so I tend to keep that bike’s battery connected the trickle charger thing most of the time - Oxford Maximiser 360T.
Is anyone running Motobatts and or using a maximiser to maintain them? Which setting would I use on the maximiser, standard motorbike mode or COLD / AGM mode? I wouldn’t want to knacker the battery by charging it wrongly.
Are these batteries any good?
Any advice appreciated, thanks.
I swear by motobatt.
I trickle mine with a solar panel plugged straight into it.
Motobatt batteries are any good, but it’s worth remembering that none of the major brands (YUASA, Bosch, Exide, Varta, etc.) produce bad batteries, either. You won’t be able to determine whether it’s a motobatt or anything else in a blind test.
Motobatt’s ‘thing’ is that they have a lower total current output than most batteries (but still safely above what’s required of a starter motor) and in return can discharge further. So the main benefit is that if your bike’s fucked you can spend longer uselessly turning it over than with other batteries. This makes for good marketing videos and is probably useful if you’re really bad at remembering to turn the fuel on or to check the killswitch. They also have four terminals rather than two, which is actually genuinely useful if you’re fitting aftermarket electricals.
AGM in general doesn’t like being overcharged, so as long as you’ve got a charger that will not do that (as most optimate-alikes do) then it’ll be fine. If there’s an AGM setting I don’t know why you’d not use that.
Yup. I’ve had three of these now in different bikes and they are aces! Well worth the money and they just work straight off. No messing about.
I have one on the R1, all good.
i love my motobatt, sometime my bonneville dont get used and i have come to the bike after 3 weeks and it starts up straight away, got not trickle charger on it at all as no power in garage, thats the reason i bought it.
I was going to get one recently but my local shop said they had changed recently and he didn’t rate them or stock them any more. I ended up buying a Tayna Westco which is similar. So far so good.
Did he say what had changed? You have to get batteries pretty wrong to actually be making a bad one.
