I own a Suzuki GSF650 bandit K5, since I've put hot grips on it recently the battery has discharged.?

All though the last time i used the bike around 5 weeks the battery seemed fine, %26amp; i allways turn off the hotgrips at the switch, i came to the bike today tried to start it %26amp; nothing, tested the battery with my volt meter between 8-9 volts, its charging at the moment with a bike charger, hopefully be ok. my question being even though i switch the hotgrips off do they still pull amps from the battery.|||I take by the sounds of things you only at the moment use the bike for short trips?





So the bikes left standing and the built in Suzuki immobiliser (should be fitted to that model) is continuously draining a little battery juice every day....even with no immobiliser fitted it will drain a little every day...this means that when you come along and press the starter the battery has to give a lot of amps all in one go.........further depleting the power it stores.





You then ride about with hot grips on, probably not too far as its a bit cold......headlights on as well....(please don't ride without them!)..........even after 10 or 20 miles the battery will only just start to be getting back to a decent operating level.





Invest in an optimate or similar and leave her plugged in so shes all fully charged up every time you need her.|||Hi


not unless you have chaffed the insulation on either the loom feeding the grips, or damaged the grips themselves during installation, If all that checks out maybe your battery wasn't tip top in the 1st place and the extra load has shown up the fault, If you have an alarm fitted and ride short distances with lights all the time you may not be getting enough charge in there to maintain it , also 5 weeks between rides without a maintenance charger may just be killing the battery on its own either way that meter' gonna come in handy|||Depending what model of grips you got, it could be that they are still switched on.


Cheaper grips need to be switched off, so i would wire them to the switched ignition side of the ignition switch. This way no pixies can switch them on and flatten the battery- or if you forget once they will flatten the battery over night.


Some Oxford grips are made so they switch them self off when they sence a power drop.These are good if your not traveling far and only pottering about.|||Your battery is depleted because your hotgrips amperage is draining your battery faster than be replaced.


No problem, attach a float charger and plug it in overnight. The float charger will turn off when full charge is reached. and turn back on when needed.


Also, get a higher amperage battery, not over 9amps.|||why do you want hot grips on a bike, wear proper gloves and you wont get cold, maybe its just my age bracket but i remember riding my 1st bikes in -10 with just a pair of ladies tights under my old leather gloves and i never felt the cold. However if you have a datatool alarm on your suzuki or an immobilise your battery will lose charge, mine last max 3 weeks without starting|||"even though i switch the hotgrips off do they still pull amps from the battery."


We will assume that U have a switch that is working correctly and NEVER forget to flip it. Then the ans. is NO.


IF you operate the bike a lot of the time at low rpm u may drain batt. while running the bike though.


Would also consider that ur batt. may just be getting old and not holding charge.|||If it's been parked 5 weeks with the hot grips live then the battery would be very dead, like 0 volts. The bike probably has an alarm/immobiliser that draws a bit of current and after 5 weeks that has probably flatted the battery