Tender wires

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:04 pm

For those of you who charge your battery without removing it from the bike what do you do with the leads to the Tender after you are done charging? I have leads that look hard-wired into the bike, to be used with the Tender (I do not, I take out the battery when I want to charge it). Now that battery is back in the scooter, what about those loose leads? Do I just tuck them into complartmet carefully? I am assuming they are not "live" unless hooked up to the tender/electricity and they are not, so what to do with them?

Lil Buddy · Post by **Lil Buddy** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:56 pm

If they are hard wired to your battery, they are live. Not a big deal if you keep the end of the plug covered.

On my old buddy (pre 12volt outlet) I hard wired my tender then ran the wire up through the "door" inside the pet carrier. I then hung it from the helmet pegs. When it was time to charge, just pop the seat and plug her in.

On my new buddy, I just use the 12volt accessory outlet.

Stormswift · Post by **Stormswift** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 11:21 pm

What I have is round leads and regular square leads. The connection port to tender wire on those round leads is covered (just like on a tender when you hook up round leads on the. It took me the longest time to figure out what exactly those were because all of the scooters I saw at my dealers did not have that kind of leads. He said they were For the Tender. I initially not knowing what they were connected then on top of the square leads. N thing bad happened, the scooter started and ran but to be on a cautious side I disconnected them and only left square leads in place. I tucked the Tender leads in the empty spaces around the battery and away from each other. This is what it looks like inside my scooter before battery went back in.