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Battery/Starting slow spin - is this common & why doesn't it start like a normal motorcycle?

Thread starter Metalman
Start date Jul 21, 2025

DickB

Active member

Thursday at 5:15 PM

jzeiler said:
Ok maybe an hour is a bit much but 10 minutes is not enough time to replace 1 % of the battery capacity. You just took 100 amps out of the battery and now you need to replace it. That would be 16.6 amp minutes and assuming the charge rate of the system is low (1 amp or less to avoid over heating the battery) it would take more than 20 minutes to replace it.

More typically my starter runs 1-2 seconds. Since we're guessing at the charge rate, I'm going to guess that the Spyder charges at the recommended 2A at any kind of rpms at all. 10 minutes is more than enough to replace the charge from a nominal start.