Noco a good alternative to yuasa?

pica

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Hi guys
The battery is dead. I guess 5 year mark.
Is the noco any good?

NOCO Lithium NLP14​

Or should I stock to yuasa
 

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Hi guys
The battery is dead. I guess 5 year mark.
Is the noco any good?

NOCO Lithium NLP14​

Or should I stock to yuasa

Stick to Lead Acid Yuasa or any other brand you can find, but stick to Lead acid.

OR good luck with Lithium ion garbage










and you want to sit on a lithium ion battery?


Obviously people will be like in comment section below, "hey man, these are all rare incidents"


so to those people, how many incidents until its not rare?
 
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With Lithium battery, just make sure your battery tender is compatible with a lithium battery. I will switch to lithium battery whenever my OEM battery dies. Did the same on my HD fatbob before this. The Lithium battery is very light
you sir, are a genius........................... ROFLAMO
 
There's lithium ion and there's lithium iron phosphate. The former is volatile if not charged and maintained correctly; the latter is incredibly stable. Either way you need a lithium-specific tender and the bike's charging system also needs to be compatible with lithium.
I'm having to switch to lithium iron phosphate on my Ducati as it has a tuned engine (as in engineering tuning, not reflashing) with higher compression and increased valve overlap and there isn't room to fit a larger lead acid battery with enough cranking power to start it reliably and I'm killing the starter sprag clutch. But I will have to change the regulator/rectifier to a mosfet unit. Without it, at best it won't charge the battery properly, at worst it will over-charge it and kill it, or if it's li-ion cause it to become unstable and potentially combust.

That's straightforward on Ducatis as the factory fits Li-ion as standard to their bikes now and plug and play mosfet reg/recs are avilable for older generation Ducs. As far as I'm aware the R3's charging system is designed for lead acid. If so, it will need to be adapted to lithium.
 
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I ride a high powered motorcycle - and am acutely aware of the risks of doing so on public roads. The risk of a battery catching fire bothers me way less than the other risks.

Can laptop batteries or cellphone call batteries catch fire? Yes. Do I use a laptop and cellphone every single day? Yes. I even put earbuds with lithium batteries in my ears.

That's my choice - thankfully you have the ability to choose for yourself. Don't want to use something ? Don't. Simple.
 
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With Lithium battery, just make sure your battery tender is compatible with a lithium battery. I will switch to lithium battery whenever my OEM battery dies. Did the same on my HD fatbob before this. The Lithium battery is very light
You had a FatBob before a Rocket 3? Same here. '08 FB to a '25 Storm GT. Similar in size/weight, wildly different in ride!