Any older cold blooded Rockets other than mine?

[mexican]

sounds like battery
try jumping with car battery.
what is the volts while you are trying to start it? i would guess about 6

Herman, it is a brand new battery, last battery was doing the same, both fully charged. will look into it this weekend

 

[mexican]

To me - bad earth connection

That is what im hopping for, just got to see where it is

 

[mexican]

may be
that is where a voltmeter comes in real handy

Got one, will put it to work

 

[mexican]

Yeah. Make sure BOTH wheels are on the ground. You UK guys are confusing. But we love you anyway.

 

[CrzystghndKC]

Guys, need the gurus on this one, went to try to start it, it just clicks, new battery shows full, hooked up the battery tender in case it was not fully charged from the factory, been charging for a few hours and battery tender shows green.
It acts like battery is low, when i hit the button it just clicks and lights dim down to almost nothing stay like that after i release the button, it also loses voltage to the sweepers, one may sweep and the other one does not, also light on the speedo gets very dim and sometimes after the click all electric dies, Everything indicates low battery but old battery had charge and new battery does too. Any ideas? Never had an issue that i couldnt figure out with my Rockets, this one has me puzzled, had not spent lots of time on it but looking for ideas. Thanks in advance!

Try a real battery charger a battery tender only puts out 2-3 amps not enough to charge fully a cold battery. Put it on a 10 amp trickle charger and in a bit I bet it spins right up.

 

[mexican]

Problem solved guys and girls, followed the low voltage advise from the gurus, found a brand new battery failing, it had the voltage but not the amps, will take it back and get a better one.
Thanks for all the responses!!

 

[mexican]

Well, not quite there yet, looks like is the solenoid, after trying 3 different batteries with same results, came to the conclusion that i need to get my hands dirty.

 

[xhdskip]

Mine is always cold, ESPECIALLY if I don't ride for awhile.
Usually have to get a new good hot battery and still jump that if it sits to long,
as it has recently, lol.

 

[xhdskip]

Jump it off a truck and it'll crank.

 

[mexican]

Jump it off a truck and it'll crank.

I did, it starts right up when jumped with a car battery, when using a motorcycle battery it wont crank more that a turn and sometimes it just clicks, i tried 3 batteries with the same result