new battery keeps going dead

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kjquadracer · #1 Post by **kjquadracer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:53 pm

is something loose or unplugged some where? i cant see it if so.

kjquadracer · #2 Post by **kjquadracer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 4:56 pm

why? what shold i look for

kdeal · #3 Post by **kdeal** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:21 pm

Did you put the battery on a charger before you installed it? If so, what size charger? If it was a large automotive type charger, and the setting was at like 40 to 200 amps, you cooked the battery. If not try putting it on a trickle charger overnight (.50 to 2 amp max). The best chargers are ones that will stop charging the battery when it reaches full charge and will maintain the charge when hooked up continously.

DangerRanger · #4 Post by **DangerRanger** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 5:58 pm

shut the quad down, turn everything off around it, and make sure the key is out. put your ear near the fuel pump, and look at the filter...is it slowly running??

Canniboomer · #5 Post by **Canniboomer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 6:31 pm

Hey danger... if that were to happen would the negative switched ground from ECU/fuelpump be loose?.. or a bad main relay? ... would like to learn what you are hinting at?, tks.

DangerRanger · #6 Post by **DangerRanger** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:02 pm

ECU fuel pump driver has gone bad, possibly.

kjquadracer · #7 Post by **kjquadracer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:36 pm

charged the battery last night and it started fine, today ???

JeffQuadShop · #8 Post by **JeffQuadShop** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 8:54 pm

Need more info! When is it going down? Are you leaving the key on?

DangerRanger · #9 Post by **DangerRanger** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 9:18 pm

check out the pump problem above....

kjquadracer · #10 Post by **kjquadracer** » Tue Aug 17, 2004 11:42 pm

k thanks