pete
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Post by pete on Nov 16, 2008 16:33:38 GMT -5
Hi Folks, Have my Ruckus for 3 months now, love it. Could anyone in the know tell me what kind of charger to use on my battery? Can I use a standard car 12volt charger? Thanks, Pete
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Post by chanito on Nov 16, 2008 18:10:10 GMT -5
 Our battery is very small and can boil over, so you need a low amp charge to charge it a trickle charger like a battery tender is the best ;D
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Post by Dandy Dan on Nov 17, 2008 3:18:29 GMT -5
Yup....a battery tender or any trickle charger is best. If you want to make it easy, you can install a cigarette lighter and wire that to the battery. Then you can get a battery tender that plugs into that.
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Post by qruqid on Nov 17, 2008 16:11:00 GMT -5
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Post by nobodysdog on Dec 4, 2008 18:04:47 GMT -5
Yup....a battery tender or any trickle charger is best. If you want to make it easy, you can install a cigarette lighter and wire that to the battery. Then you can get a battery tender that plugs into that. Battery Tenders ROCK.... smart charger keeps you from cooking the battery dry or damaging a Gel cell like our Ruckus battery.  |
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Post by jedisabre7 on Dec 5, 2008 8:47:20 GMT -5
AND........I believe this is a must. Run some leads off the battery and let them lie outside of your battery box towards the bottom. That way you never even have to take the battery box off to charge it.
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evilkaneval
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Hi my name is Justin and I'm a Ruckaholic
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Post by evilkaneval on Jan 27, 2009 20:41:37 GMT -5
:)hey, i just bought a charger/maintainer. Its a12v-2amp slow charger, and has an automatic float mode to not over charge. This sould work just fine,.... right? |
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Post by Dandy Dan on Jan 29, 2009 21:36:55 GMT -5
yup!
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evilkaneval
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Hi my name is Justin and I'm a Ruckaholic
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Post by evilkaneval on Jan 31, 2009 1:36:44 GMT -5
 sweet! Got it at SearsAuto $23. It came with a cig. lighter adapter, which is perfect because a recently installed a waterproof cig. lighter jack under my seat. ;D
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Post by Dandy Dan on Feb 3, 2009 15:20:08 GMT -5
Nice.....a cigg lighter is something I'm going to add to every scooter I own from now own. Unfortunately my last scooter was an '83 Yamaha which was an old 6 volt electrical system so I couldn't get one.
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Post by Firegut on Feb 3, 2009 17:21:07 GMT -5
You could have gotten one. You just couldn't use it for anything but lighting 6v cigarettes. |
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evilkaneval
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Hi my name is Justin and I'm a Ruckaholic
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Post by evilkaneval on Feb 4, 2009 15:54:39 GMT -5
You could have gotten one. You just couldn't use it for anything but lighting 6v cigarettes.  LOL literally |
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pete
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Post by pete on Feb 7, 2009 4:35:21 GMT -5
Thanks, Y'all. I might have screwed up. My kill switch appeared to be between contact points.
I only noticed AFTER I bought a new battery for 70 bucks! Anyhooooo, I now have 2 batteries. Any suggestions for making good use of the original?
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Post by seansean on Feb 7, 2009 12:33:52 GMT -5
return it and buy a trickle charger and a lightened flywheel...
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n1jdu
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Post by n1jdu on Apr 30, 2009 13:27:44 GMT -5
Hi Folks, Have my Ruckus for 3 months now, love it. Could anyone in the know tell me what kind of charger to use on my battery? Can I use a standard car 12volt charger? Thanks, Pete
Is it a new Ruckus, or a used one? In other words .. how old is the battery? A new battery should not be 'dead' that soon.
Starting the bike with the kickstarter, and riding it around, should be good enough to charge the battery.
NOTE: running a battery completely dead will damage the battery. Yes, you can re-charge it .. and, yes, it will last (for a while) but it will not last as long as it would have lasted if it didn't run out.
Open up the battery box and check the connections on the battery. Sometimes vibration will cause these to come loose (been there, done that)
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