Battery to suit Alton generator

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Battery to suit Alton generator

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‘Morning team!
I’m in the process of fitting a BT-H mag and Alton generator to my VH project.
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What battery options have people chosen?
Between 8 and 14Ah is the recommended capacity.
Has anyone relocated an AGM battery under the seat or found one that’s physically small enough to fit in a dummy Exide case?
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Sorry, I’m really struggling to edit the pics to turn them the right way up!
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not done one of those, but got one on my A7ss and a Varta battery fitted into the battery holder without probs and works well.
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Cheers Ken,
Do you know the capacity or the part number for the Varta?
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bruno.crossley wrote: Fri Sep 08, 2023 9:48 am Sorry, I’m really struggling to edit the pics to turn them the right way up!
1) Don't hold the camera/phone upside down when you take the pic (seriously).
2) I find that by examining the images in an image viewer, changing the orientation and re-saving, and then uploading the re-orientated image file everything displays the right way up (as per below).
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Cheers Simon,
I’d had a go at editing and re-saving, but obviously not correctly. I’ll ask a grandson to show me how!
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hi Bruno ;
this is what i have in my NH repro rubber battery box TAYNA ES13-6 , its 6v 13ah .
it takes up the whole of the inside of the box , the lid goes on but you dont want any wires on top of battery or the lid will be pushed up too much , so come out the side with the wires ..
the battery terminals are spade type and what i did was to buy some 90 degree cable terminals with clear insulation boots on them and cut a bit off them so the terminals were shorter where the wire is fixed and then soldered the wire on , so when the terminals are pushed onto the battery terminals they dont stick out and the wires are as flush as possible to the battery .

i left bike over the last winter and it didnt even need charging up again when i ran it up and rode it again this year .

i am using an AO services voltage regulator and it hardly draws any residual current , in fact when i measured it i couldnt get a reading using my digital meter and i had to use an old analogue meter which went down low enough , it was it was 0.15ma .

https://www.tayna.co.uk/motorcycle-batt ... gJ16vD_BwE

cheers
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hi Drags are now saying they do a hard battery box , i did use a rubber bat box but i found it was to soft when it was fitted to the bike then i got some hard bat boxes at kempton park a few years ago and fitted them :D
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cant remember the part no but it is 12ah and just fits and it is 12v
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