what's going on youtube kevin reese here today i'm going to bring you this video on the scorpion
battery that i got it's the life po4 it is supposed to be one of the best batteries that
you can put in a small engine atv lawnmower dirt bike motorcycle stuff like that so let's check it
out i picked it up on battery stuff.com now here are the numbers there's the model number it's the
scorpion stinger 354 cold cranking amps y'all that blew my mind and it is i'm going to put it
on a scale for y'all but this thing is super light and there's the grand total price right there 155
which is a good bit more than you're gonna pay for your standard battery but this thing is supposed
to be great see right here i got it on the charger just charging it up now you're going to want to do
this with any new battery you get now i did do the test the test mode on here so when i pressed
it it did they all lit up blue saying 100 but you don't know how long this battery has been
sitting in a warehouse it's always a good idea to go ahead and put it on trickle charger and let it
charge up first and i'm putting it out here in my brute force 650 now one of the things it's a 650v
twin so it takes some some power to turn this motor over and i've been using these napa
batteries just because the napa store in my town was right up town and whenever my battery was dead
i would just run up and get one i was paying about like 80 bucks for these but they never really did
a great job of starting the four-wheeler i mean they would start it but it wasn't like
it was turning over really fast but i always keep it on my battery minder trickle charger
now right now it's charging up my new battery and you can see it looks like it's about three
quarters of the way full we started out about here but i decided this time when i replace it
then i'll replace it with something nice so that's why i went with this scorpion
oh [ __ ] now this is something to note that i just found out because i just put it on my
battery minder charger that has an automatic desulfation pulse mode function and it says do
not use a charger that has that it also gives some other warnings that the vehicle charging system
and battery chargers should charge between 14 to 15 volts which that's standard anything less than
14 will not charge and over 14 will cause battery damage now like i said when i took this directly
out of the box and i hit the test mode i had full battery but just for good measure i put it on the
charger and just read this so i took it off so we'll just put it in the four wheeler and start it
up see how she does but before we do that i want to put this on a scale and because y'all are not
going to believe how light this thing is so these are just some more stats on the battery if y'all
want to pause that you can look at it but you know it's third the weight of a lead acid battery
excellent cycle life over 2000 cycles which is under the jisd standard lead acid battery
only 150 to 300 cycles it also says there's no pollution so the battery also does not contain
any toxic metals such as lead cadmium and mercury now if you go through their little
instruction booklet here with the very fine print you can see that they recommend the battery tender
charger which is a lithium smart charger you can see it says that it arrives approximately
30 percent charge and that it should be charged before you attempt to start your application
now i don't know about y'all but low medium full when i hold that down that
full is not 30 percent so it looks like the battery is fully charged to me and it arrived like
this alright so i've got my scale here in pounds and ounces we're going to take our napa battery uh
set that joker up there 10 pounds 9.6 ounces ah now we're gonna take our scorpion stinger
and y'all ain't gonna believe this one pound twelve point six ounces this thing is crazy light
and so i'm sure y'all could tell this battery is a little bit smaller than the other battery that
i had in here and you can see the compartment that it's going into you can see that it is
going to be a little bit smaller with some room in there so what comes in the box they include these
this plastic that kind of snaps together so you can snap these pieces kind of like this
they go together so you can snap these pieces together to kind of fill in the gaps
of course it's also gonna come with screws for the battery terminals
so i'm gonna go ahead and hook her up and uh see how she starts up all right so we
got her mounted up and there's a few things i want to show y'all so these pieces right here
you can either put them at the top or you can put them at the bottom to fill in the gap now
i could do that at the bottom but as you all can see it's not exactly right and i mean putting them
in here they don't go in there tight so you know bouncing around i don't want these to fall out and
then land in here on the engine or my exhaust and then you know i've got burnt plastic mess going on
but this battery the battery is so light that it sits in this little cradle so now on every machine
is going to be different on this atv you've got this holder that's held in by two phillips heads
and a 10 mil so you can see i've got it tightened down this battery is in here it's not it's
not going anywhere it's it's in there and it's sturdy i mean it does have a little wiggle room
but it's in there and it's so light that it can sit in this cradle and not cause any issues to
add to that your little wire clamps that hold your uh hold your positive and your negative
down they kind of act as an anchor too and with this thing being just over a pound it
sits in here with no problems so i'm gonna go ahead and start it up and see how she fires off
so far so good
all right so far i'm really happy with the battery you can see it turned this 650 over
like no problem i do still have a question about that desulfation mode on my battery
miner charger and why you're not supposed to use the charge that has that i did reach out to their
customer service they were closed it was after office hours so i'm going to call back tomorrow
and i'm going to let y'all know what they have to say and i wasn't expecting this but uh people at
battery stuff.com actually gave me a call back and uh answered my question so i'll let you all take a
listen hi this is sarah with batterystuff.com i was giving kevin a call back about the scorpion
stinger battery you purchased using it for about an hour probably wouldn't have heard anything
you shouldn't see any difference to performance or life for that but it is recommended to use just a
lithium-specific charger on those batteries we do have one for 64.89 part number is tm thomas
mary-471 if you do have any further questions on on how that works with lithium feel free to call
me back 800-362-5397 thank you all right so i just got in touch with battery stuff called them talked
to a super nice guy he explained everything to me about that lithium battery so he said
that lithium battery it is bad for that battery to use a battery charger that has that desulfation
mode and he said because of the high frequency pulses that it emits will ruin destroy those
lithium cells now it's great for a lead acid battery like i've been using on but it's horrible
for that battery and it makes sense so he also said you know because if you're concerned about
a good charger for it he said they don't require the same maintenance as lead acid does so that
that battery in the four-wheeler now it should be fine without just you know just driving it um and
not really doing a lot of a lot of maintenance on it like you would with a lead acid and having
to charge it all the time and stuff like that so basically he said it's just good to go the way it
is and i explained to them that you know normally with lead acid batteries good maintenance on them
you know i can get three or four years out of them he said on that battery you can expect
with normal use in normal run cycles you can get six to seven years that's crazy i like to note
also that anytime starting that four wheeler i've always had to even with a brand new battery in it
i'll have to choke it hit the starter and then give it a little bit of gas also that is not the
case with this i can turn the choke and just hit the starter and lay it to it and it'll fire up
so i guess the takeaway here is if you have the extra money to spin
get a lithium battery they're going to last longer and they put out a lot more power and they require
little to no maintenance and if you've been in the market for a lithium battery i hope this video has
helped shine some light on them and that you've learned something from it because i sure have
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a comment if you have any questions i'll be glad to answer them and if it's something i don't know
i'll try to find the answer for you and as always i'm kevin reese see you on the next video you