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- My Bike Models
- 1981 GL1100 Innerstate("The Turd")SOLD!!, 1996 GL1500 Innerstate
So...I got stuck at the fuel station Monday, due to a dead battery. My handy-dandy Rockford Power Pocket had already taken a dump, too, so it was basically dead. Got a feller from the shop to run up with the big booster box and get me goin. Yesterday, I decided that since the Power Pocket thing was dead anyway, I might as well open it up and see if the battery was replaceable.....a replacement battery would be a heck of a lot cheaper than replacing the whole dang thing. I got it opened, but the battery is soldered to the rest of the circuit board. Then, I got curious....the battery is wrapped in a blue plastic, so I sliced that off. Under that was some cardboard-like stuff that was glued down. I peeled that stuff off, and there was some fiber-based tape holding the rest of it together. The rest of it being three separate panels. I started just feeling around on it, mashing and such, and I heard a "poof"...like air escaping, then the whole thing sorta deflated. Still curious, I kept messing with it, and then it happened....another big "poof", and all of a sudden the durn thing starts smoking, and whistling....LOTS of smoke....like a friggin diesel on startup lottsa smoke. I was holding it by the circuit board and ran outside to chunk it in a barrel before it friggin exploded inside. Damn thing smoked for aboot 20 minutes.....and I mean SMOKED. The space station could prolly see it. Heavy, thick, white smoke....all the while still whistling. Scared the pee outta me! After aboot 30 minutes or so, it finally quit smoking and making noise. I waited a few more minutes before I went to peer down inside the barrel. Thing was TOAST.
Guess they don't want anyone replacing the battery pack in those things, eh? :whistling:
I'll get some pics of it tomorrow....forgot the camera today. I wound up buying another booster anyway, but I got a different brand/type this time. The Rockford box saved my bacon more than once since I've had it, but it just dint last that long....it was only aboot two years old or less. There is nothing on the packaging, or in the User Manual that states edzachary WHAT type of battery this thing uses, but I'm sure it's a lithium ion, or similar. I did find this info on a site that sells these things...."Built-in Nano Lithium batteries can hold a charge for up to a year."
Guess they don't want anyone replacing the battery pack in those things, eh? :whistling:
I'll get some pics of it tomorrow....forgot the camera today. I wound up buying another booster anyway, but I got a different brand/type this time. The Rockford box saved my bacon more than once since I've had it, but it just dint last that long....it was only aboot two years old or less. There is nothing on the packaging, or in the User Manual that states edzachary WHAT type of battery this thing uses, but I'm sure it's a lithium ion, or similar. I did find this info on a site that sells these things...."Built-in Nano Lithium batteries can hold a charge for up to a year."
