Bit of advice urgently needed as I have a flat battery (again) and need to get to a meeting tomorrow urgently.
This is my relatively new battery I put in to replace the Shorai one and I confess I haven't ridden the Superduke for two weeks so it's in good order, just lost its punch due to non use and the alarm draining it over time. Bike is stored at my lock up where there is no power so I cannot just charge the battery up as I would if it was at home.
My usual option (which I have done a few times for various reasons) is to push the bastard the two miles to my house and then charge up over night. Because of the hard to access battery I have a trickle charge cable wired in with easy access under the tank. This is a Halfords maintenance charger as shown in the link below.
I'm shit with anything electrical (really a dunce) but I have had this thought which I need to ask about and many of you out there will be able to tell me if this idea is OK.
I really, don't want to push the bike two miles and neither do I really don't want to have to take off the belly-pan and remove the battery to get it home as I just don't have time tomorrow. So my question is can I just go to Halfords, buy a really cheap car battery - pre charged, and then use the cables from the maintenance charger to jump start the bike in the morning?
The maintenance kit comes with another cable that plugs into the lead with the same male/female connector. It has clips on the other end that are for when you just want to charge up a battery when it's not in a bike. So can I just reverse this cable and clip this onto my new charged battery, plug the connector into my bike lead under the tank and jump the bike? I started getting concerned because I can't work out whether I need to still clip the RED/positive clip to the positive terminal on the battery or whether I need to reverse this and clip the Black clip to the battery.
What will happen if I connect the new battery through the leads the wrong way round?
Will I permanently damage something and if so what?
Is it better to just cut the lead that I use coming from the transformer and wire this to the new battery? But even then I do not know which side of the lead (and more importantly male/female connector) is positive or negative.
Any help or comments appreciated!!
Thanks in advance.
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