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Great way to destroy the startermotor, it was never built for this. Many ways getting thing to work, how long it last is another question..
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Great way to destroy the startermotor, it was never built for this. Many ways getting thing to work, how long it last is another question..
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Well, the starter-motor will probably make it for a while. Increasing voltage is a common way to increase torque - usually for a limited time.
In many cases it will be better for a motor to run on higher voltage for a few seconds then to struggle on max torque and low/no speed for 30 seconds.
If you are really interested in "what things are built for" you should not install a battery with a lot more CCA then your ordinary battery. Your wiring and starter are not designed for it and you might have enough current available to fry it.
Remember that unlike most other electrical motors the starter have no protection (overcurrent, overload, temperature, etc).
But again; I would not have done this on a standard bike. This comment was to tell that some people use 2 batteries in series without issues.
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It's not the voltage that kills you!
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Originally Posted by AliBaba
Your wiring and starter are not designed for it and you might have enough current available to fry it.
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My old night-classes-in-electronics lecturer used to demonstrate this very well; he took an old 12V battery and simply put a wire across the terminals holding the ends of the wire in contact with two insulated pliers.
The red glow turned to white hot and, pretty soon after that, the wire melted.
This was his demonstration of how a fuse fails, thereby performing as per its' purpose and design.
'Elf and safety freaks avert your eyes, but I very much doubt that such great demos of fuses are done in colleges nowadays.
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