Was the bike on a tender for the 20 idle days?

 

You don’t at least have a light fixture in the garage where you could screw in one of these adapter deals to get an AC plug…..?

Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but being a Mod on this site over the last couple years since these new bikes came out, the only solution I have seen is for the bike to live on a 4 or preferably 5 amp battery maintainer when not being ridden. It’s even what the MoCo recommends as the solution…....🤷🏼‍♂️

 

That kinda sucks (to put it technically) if you are out camping and not doing a lot of riding for a few days, (or something similar). I guess you can carry a portable jump starter for the bike.

 

Was it in transport mode when trailer-ed? If it was dead plug it in for a few days and see. If it hold charge you ok. If it does not battery is Done.
Rushmore and up the the tender plug is protected by the 20 PA fuse in fuse box.

I have friends 2013 plugged with a 5 amp tender now.

 

Was it in transport mode when trailer-ed? If it was dead plug it in for a few days and see. If it hold charge you ok. If it does not battery is Done.
Rushmore and up the the tender plug is protected by the 20 PA fuse in fuse box.

I have friends 2013 plugged with a 5 amp tender now.

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I just went and ordered one of these today, because my H-D 5A charger pooped the bed this weekend, no idea why, but it now constantly indicates an overvolt condition even though the settings are correct/haven't changed. Tried it with other batteries as well and same thing. My old 1A tender still works fine so at least I can use that until the new one arrives.

 

If you're gonna let it sit for three weeks and have no power where it's stored, pull the main fuse.

 

Captain Obvious here, I keep my bikes on battery tenders all of the time when we're not on them riding. You need to find a place that has electricity to store it.

 

As @smitty901 said: was the bike in transport mode while trailered ? If not it would drain the battery, then two short 10 miles trips won't recharge the battery and then sit 20 days, yeah it'd be dead.

 

I would find a safe, reasonable way to get electric installed in the garage unless it's out in the middle of the woods somewhere and prohibitively expensive. If I had a garage with no power and the person that was using it offered to put power in there, I'd be very grateful. Either that, or as ksol5 recommended, find a place to store your bike that already has an outlet for a Tender. Good luck...

 

1 car battery one basic cheap harbor freight solar panel with inverter comes as a kit. Will run a small Tender.

 

To even have a chance a dead battery (no matter how it died) needs to be on a real "manual" battery charger (not a tender) to bring it back to it's "full potential".

Once it's back to full potential an automatic Battery Tender can keep it at full potential. All you're gonna' do is heat/burn up a small tender trying to charge a dead battery.

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The bike was in trailer mode for transport. I’m going to see how things go but I may have to consider looking for another garage with electric, or trying solar. I live in Southern NJ and the weather here is supposed to be shit for another week. Got the feeling I’m going to find myself in this same predicament. I will keep you guys posted.

 

So you’re in a parking garage I take it?

@SteadyEddie what did you do when you were keeping your bikes up town in Chicago…..?

 

It’s privately owned garage. I own a commercial property in a small town. My business is downstairs and my apartment is above it. There is a huge old house nextdoor with 6 apartments in it now. They have a detached 6 bay cinder block garage behind it that are all individual bays. A previous tenant ran an extension cord to his garage from his apartment. She threw him out and told me I could now have that garage for my bikes, if I would rip all the wiring down etc and clean it out. So now I gotta figure out how to bring it up without sounding ungrateful or like a pain in the ass. OR I have to find another garage somewhere in town that I can get access to that HAS electricity. Sucks because this garage is spotless and it is DIRECTLY nextdoor to me.

 

Ahhhh, makes sense….. If you don’t have plans to go anywhere, and it doesn’t sound like you do, perhaps tell her you’ll bury the line if she’ll let you do it, and maybe throw $50 or $100 her way every month…? Sounds like the optimum setup having it next door, so hopefully you can figure out a way to make it work…. Good luck.

 

If bike sits that much. Take battery out. It is not that hard on the touring bike. Take it in apartment and plug it in.

 

The 5 AMP "Indian" Battery Tender/Charger/Maintainer I bought on eBay works really well. I have no complaints, plus I saved some loot at $78 shipped. Manufactured by the same company as the green Battery Tenders - Deltran.

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Just put a sticker on it, lol…..

 

I went out to ride this am, and click click. Pulled out the tender and stuck it on the 25 RG. Been two weeks tops since the last ride.

I bought the 25 RG in Maine and rode it back to Houston (long story). Now, understand what the dealer SM meant when he said, "These new RGs can't stray far from a battery tender." Since I bought it in Maine, I just assumed it was a cold-weather thing. But I live in Houston. It's hot as HADES, so I know it's not a cold-weather thing.

My 20 RGL can go months without a tender connected and fire right up.

What in the heck is consuming all the power? This is simply ridiculous.

 

I went out to ride this am, and click click. Pulled out the tender and stuck it on the 25 RG. Been two weeks tops since the last ride.

I bought the 25 RG in Maine and rode it back to Houston (long story). Now, understand what the dealer SM meant when he said, "These new RGs can't stray far from a battery tender." Since I bought it in Maine, I just assumed it was a cold-weather thing. But I live in Houston. It's hot as HADES, so I know it's not a cold-weather thing.

My 20 RGL can go months without a tender connected and fire right up.

What in the heck is consuming all the power? This is simply ridiculous.

The new bikes have a lot more that is active when the bikes are off from what I have heard. Hell, Who knows how much that new infotainment pulls when the bike is off.

For socks and goggles pull the maim fuel and let it set for a few days checking the battery voltage every now and then from your tender pigtail. Bet it stays rock solid.

One thing to consider also is not all tenders are created equal. Deltran tenders are good but even they can brute forces today's junky batteries a little to hard. Optimate tenders tend to be a little more gentle and even take ambient temp into account when administering voltage.

 

My ’24 Road Glide was showing every day the yellow battery light … was the siren battery. After replacing it, the yellow light hasn’t come back on, even after one week without a battery tender.

 

I need to pop the main fuse and check parasitic current draw across the two sockets. If it’s more than single digit mA draw, Harley has some done something dumb. The clock, and memory definitely need a small amount of current. If excessive and NOT due to a fault or accessory, my guess is there’s some sloppy “WAKE-UP” code or timers in the embedded code within the BCM on 24 and up. Question is, can it be updated, or is it something we all need to live with. A really good tender is a really good thing to have right now if you have a 24+ RG.

 

It's Sunday morning, my '25 Road Glide 2 months old that i haven't ridden it for 3 weeks as a completely dead battery your information makes sense thank you for sharing I'm off to buy a new one