OK... so I need a battery for my 1977 Honda CJ360.
I tried to replace the original battery with a capacitor and the bike doesn't like it. I'm assuming the problem is my charging system just not being up to the task as I have already gone with solid state replacements for both regulator and rectifier. Additionally, I've put my headlight onto a switch so that I can run without it and I've also replaced every single other light on the bike with LEDs. Still no joy.
My bike runs a lot better (I still have some carb issues, but I digress...) with the old battery connected via jumper cables and so I'm now in the market for a smaller-and-lighter-than stock battery. I've been told that 7.5 A/h is probably the minimum I should go and also to avoid lithium ion on my older bike as the charging cycles tend to be different and new batteries don't like big swings in charge/discharge.
With those things in mind, I've found this baby on Amazon for $25 (give or take): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MVH7EC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A24WV2YRRJEBAG
It's a sealed 12 V 7.5A/h battery. It uses F1 faston connectors (which I assume are the spade style?).
Any opinions on it?
I tried to replace the original battery with a capacitor and the bike doesn't like it. I'm assuming the problem is my charging system just not being up to the task as I have already gone with solid state replacements for both regulator and rectifier. Additionally, I've put my headlight onto a switch so that I can run without it and I've also replaced every single other light on the bike with LEDs. Still no joy.
My bike runs a lot better (I still have some carb issues, but I digress...) with the old battery connected via jumper cables and so I'm now in the market for a smaller-and-lighter-than stock battery. I've been told that 7.5 A/h is probably the minimum I should go and also to avoid lithium ion on my older bike as the charging cycles tend to be different and new batteries don't like big swings in charge/discharge.
With those things in mind, I've found this baby on Amazon for $25 (give or take): http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MVH7EC/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=A24WV2YRRJEBAG
It's a sealed 12 V 7.5A/h battery. It uses F1 faston connectors (which I assume are the spade style?).
Any opinions on it?