• 4 Stroke Husqvarna Motorcycles Made In Italy - About 1989 to 2014
     TE = 4st Enduro & TC = 4st Cross

  • Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Best battery?

My two bits. A Shorai in my 630 is about three years old and has performed perfectly. I have an Earth-X in my 310 and it's doing great too after two years, although I did have to bring it back to life once with a good battery jump. I will be adding the Earth-X to my other bikes soon, from Zip-Ty of course. I have appropriate chargers for both batteries, an added cost for sure. In fact, I now have four chargers: Battery Tender for lead acid, BT for BMW gel batteries, the Shorai charger, and an Optimate for Earth-X. Crazy!
 
Kenneth Webb said:
My two bits. A Shorai in my 630 is about three years old and has performed perfectly. I have an Earth-X in my 310 and it's doing great too after two years, although I did have to bring it back to life once with a good battery jump. I will be adding the Earth-X to my other bikes soon, from Zip-Ty of course. I have appropriate chargers for both batteries, an added cost for sure. In fact, I now have four chargers: Battery Tender for lead acid, BT for BMW gel batteries, the Shorai charger, and an Optimate for Earth-X. Crazy!
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That must be the difference then. I had an antigravity in my 990 superduke (a bike that's hard to start and drains the bat when not in use) and also in my Italian '10 TE450.
I never had to use a charger on any of these bikes despite the fact that sometimes one of them wouldn't get used for weeks.
I don't even own a charger for a Li-Po battery just for the lead stuff in the cars.
 
When I got my 2 EarthX batteries, they were cool with my use of a Battery Tender jr. classic that I use for every car and motorcycle battery I own. It's one reason owning an EarthX is better than others... Not needing different and special chargers. Tinken even said the same since it had the circuitry others did not.
 
http://earthxmotorsports.com/our-batteries#charging

Any charger that DOES NOT have a desulfication mode will work.
A desulfication mode is a high voltage low current mode to remove sulfides on standard battery cell plates. This is usually around 20v and will Kill your lithium battery.

As long as the charger does not have this or it can be turned off its OK to use with earthx.

Comprehensive list of good chargers are in the link at the beginning of this reply.
 
My next one will be a Super B and they are expensive as well.

But must be good cause tons of racers are using them.
 
Jimmy250 said:
not sure this would fit in a TE250
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I'm sure they make a battery that will fit your bike. This battery that is in my 449 is way smaller than stock battery. It came with foam spacers to keep it in place.
 
It's almost like oil or tires. I vote get the best battery you can afford that out performs the lousy stock batteries and don't need a special charger. For me that's Earth X, for you it might be something else. When somebody comes up with a clearly superior product, first it gets copied, then they try to do it cheaper.
 
Yeah, the warranty for the Battery Tender battery sounds about as useless as my Shorai warranty.
 
Some reviews don't say it all. Quickest way to obtain a result like in the picture is to use the wrong charger.
I have seen it plenty, they still go flat and out comes the old buzz box charger that grandpa made in the 40's.
No modern electrical system on a motorbike will get that result if the charging system is in good order and the battery doesn't have any fault.
There are only a hand full of factories in the world thas actually make the cells inside the battery. The rest of the quality is the electronics they put in to prevent overheating.
Normally in a vehicle application the only overheating occurs when prolonged cranking as this draws huge amps, charging in a bike is low compared to that.
When too hot due to cranking the battery just switches off, or is supposed to do so to avoid damage.
I'm still in favour of batteries made of quality cells as they will perform better and last longer.
 
bikesparky said:
What actually matters in one of these batteries is the CCA (cold cranking amps) if you compare this one to a similar antigravity, which has US made cells the difference is substantial.
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Yes CCA matters. But what has been overlooked on this thread is reliability. Not all are created equal and in some cases the off brand lithium batteries had caught on fire. I have the Shorai which goes for about $160 and claims 210 CCA. The Antigravity goes for $180 and you pay $20 more for the claimed 240 CCA. Both have good reputation. I wouldn't hesitate to buy either but knowing how finicky the Husky starters are I think adding the 10% more CCA from the Antigravity would be worth the $20 difference.
 
There is another difference too. The more stable battery is the LiFePo4 type. These cells are not nearly as volitie compared to standard Li cells and can handle more abuse in terms of off road use.
 
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