Stock yamaha battery

[TreewellDweller]

I recently purchased a 2006 Mountain Apex. As far as I can tell, it still has the stock battery in it. How long should one last? Has anyone used a set of the "jumper cables" from Mountain Performance? Are they for jump-charging or can you jump-start with them? My sled has 3000 miles on it. Any/all information would be appreciated. COME ON SNOW!!!!!

 

[Butta]

Use a battery tender during the off season and any long spells of non-use. I do that with my street bike and have the ORIGINAL battery still after almost 6 years (come Feb).

 

[M5-]

Ditch that heavy pig battery and install a YTZ7S or YTZ10S if you want a little more reserve.

M5

 

[rotax]

i think i'm a believer in battery tending.
i keep my stocker as a spare and on a tender when i'm not tending my 7S in the sled.

 

[rotax]

how much weight would you save

7s (4.6#) = ~10 lbs lost over stock
10s (7#) = ~8 lbs lost over stock

10s has 60 CCA over the 7s.

Factory Nytro battery 14.8#

 

[NOSZED]

Factory rx1 battery is ytx20 {11.2 pounds}
Factory apex mtx is ytx14bs (8.1 pounds}
So at best with ytz7s your saving 3.5 pounds.

 

[rotax]

Stock battery and my 7s were weighed on the same digital fish scale. If you don't wanna believe the numbers themselves, the difference doesn't lie. /shrug


I know US and CAN weights seem to have a different conversion rate at times though..

 

[NOSZED]

Nytro runs same battery as rx1, all weighed on a digital a/c scale. In canadein pounds of course.lol

 

[M5-]

The ytz7s saves just under 10 lbs. I've weighed them both more than once.

M5

 

[Sapling-Thrasher]

http://snowest.com/forum/showthread.php?t=84204&highlight=Sapling-Thrasher

 

[Stlhead]

I like pie.

 

[Zedeff]

I recently purchased a 2006 Mountain Apex. As far as I can tell, it still has the stock battery in it. How long should one last? Has anyone used a set of the "jumper cables" from Mountain Performance? Are they for jump-charging or can you jump-start with them? My sled has 3000 miles on it. Any/all information would be appreciated. COME ON SNOW!!!!!

The cable is to charge your battery from another sled that is running. It plugs into the headlight socket.
Never had to use it so not sure how long it would take