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1Back to top Go down   Odyssey PC925 Empty Odyssey PC925 Tue May 29, 2018 2:49 pm

duck

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Pretty amazing battery.  Back in June 2009, I purchased an Odyssey PC925 battery to put into a 91 K75S I was selling.  I bought the bike back last July and let it sit since then.  Over the weekend I pulled the bike out to bring it back to life and was somewhat surprised to see a running clock.  Just for kicks, I hit the start button and the bike turned over pretty well.  I then checked it with a voltmeter and it read 11.2V - from a nine year old battery that had sat untouched running a clock for 10 months!  (I don't know what it's state of charge was when I got the bike last summer.)

While I was redoing the bike's fuel system I hooked it up to a Battery Tender Jr which brought it back up to 12.5V and, once I had the bike sorted out, it had no problem starting the bike.

I wasn't 100% sure if it was the same battery that I'd installed in 2009 but when I pulled it out to do a spline lube it had the installation date of 6/09 written on it my handwriting so it is the same battery.


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Current stable:
86 Custom K100 (standard fairing, K75 Belly pan, Ceramic chromed engine covers, paralever)
K75 Frankenbrick (Paralever, K11 front end, hybrid ABS, K1100RS fairing, radial tires)
86 K75C Turbo w/ paralever
94 K1100RS
93 K1100LT
91 K1
93 K75S (K11 front end)
91 K75S (K1 front end)
14 Yamaha WR250R
98 Taxi Cab K1200RS
14 K1600GT
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2Back to top Go down   Odyssey PC925 Empty Re: Odyssey PC925 Tue May 29, 2018 3:36 pm

brickrider2

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I've had a similar experience with the 680 model.  I'd add that this is not my blanket endorsement of the Odyssey battery line in general.  I've had them died after 3 years as well.  Buying batteries has always been something of a crap shoot for me. Exclamation

    

3Back to top Go down   Odyssey PC925 Empty Re: Odyssey PC925 Tue May 29, 2018 4:19 pm

duck

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I've seen some other reports of them going bad too so you're not alone. I've had about 6 or 7 of them and have gotten good life out of all of them. (fingers crossed)


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Current stable:
86 Custom K100 (standard fairing, K75 Belly pan, Ceramic chromed engine covers, paralever)
K75 Frankenbrick (Paralever, K11 front end, hybrid ABS, K1100RS fairing, radial tires)
86 K75C Turbo w/ paralever
94 K1100RS
93 K1100LT
91 K1
93 K75S (K11 front end)
91 K75S (K1 front end)
14 Yamaha WR250R
98 Taxi Cab K1200RS
14 K1600GT
http://www.ClassicKBikes.com
    

4Back to top Go down   Odyssey PC925 Empty Re: Odyssey PC925 Tue May 29, 2018 10:33 pm

Rick G

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I hear varied reports on the Odessey batteries but more often it's good. I had a really good run from the first Motobatt I used but not so good since then.


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"Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices money to recuperate his health.
And then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then dies having never really lived."   Dalai Lama


Bikes 1999 K1100 LT with a Big Block 1200
    

5Back to top Go down   Odyssey PC925 Empty Re: Odyssey PC925 Wed May 30, 2018 10:47 am

Two Wheels Better

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I've got an Odyssey PC680 in my garage that has ten years of use on it. I got it from the warranty pile at work five or six years ago - it had a swollen case which subsided after a short while. I continue to use it for airing up my tires with a 12V air pump and lighting a 12V shop lamp. It rarely requires a freshening charge - when it drops to 12.4 volts or so - maybe twice a year, and never charges for more than fifteen minutes. 

The Odyssey rep at a moto-related tech show told the crowd to never use a low-amp maintenance-type trickle charger on them over the long-term and to hit them amps (6, 10 or even 50A in half hour bursts) if they drop to a low voltage number. That was in 2003 or '04. I don't know how much they've changed internally since then.


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1977 R75/7-100, '93 K11/K12 Big Block, '93 K1100RS, '95 R100 Mystic, '96 K1100RS, 2 x '98 K1200RS, '06 K1200R & '09 K1300GT
    

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