battery storage

deacon · #1 01-19-2008, 01:51 PM

I plan to ride my electro bike again but for now I'm involved with the gas bike. I have to baby the batteries through the winter so I rigged them up all together in a parallel circuit so that I can put the 12volt charger on them once a week or so to keep them up. I have been told not to let them drain in the cold weather since it would give me dead batteries.

Anybody else have electric bikes know anything about this.

**paul** · #2 01-19-2008, 01:57 PM

any battery it is good to keep charged. i do mine about every 2 months. another thing i have been told is cement will drain them so if you keep them in the garage like i do set them on something

deacon · #3 01-19-2008, 02:10 PM

My shop was once a photo studio so it has carpet but I have heard that as well. I don't have a lot of money in the batteries but they are practically new.

**Norman** · #4 01-19-2008, 03:11 PM

Keeping them cleaned off and filled with distilled water if they are that kind will help and a float charger is nice when not in use for long periods, which I don't have.
Norman