Wow ... It's bad enough you had to wait forever... and now the battery doesn't work .... what the hell ! EDO Performance is a few miles away from me, let me know what I can do about helping you get another battery sent out to you right away.Ok I got my battery Friday afternoon (465 cca) installed it and plugged in the trickle charger. I let it charge over night and had the green light this morning. It was pretty cold last night so I started my shop heater and let it heat up for about 2 hours. I waited for it to warm up outside also,until about 1:30 or so before I tried to start the bike. To make a long story short it is still struggling to turn over and won't start. After waiting 18 days :angry: for the battery to arrive I Got mad loaded the bike onto the trailer and off to the bike shop I went. I told them everything I had done and I will just have to wait and see what they find. :bang::bang::bang: I did notice I had no lights on the little black box/start module that sits on top of my battery. Maybe that is all it needs . I will keep updating this thread as I find out what is wrong with the dog.
It's been a year with my Tomioka .... and it still cranks like new.... it's a fricken race car battery in a small packageI watched the video a few times and what I hear is a starter and solenoid that doesn't have enough voltage to work properly. It sounds like the starter engages at first and then stops when there isn't enough voltage to make it crank over, then as the voltage drops more the solenoid drops out. When it drops out, there is less load on the battery causing voltage to go back up a little and process starts over again.
I have put the same battery (Tomioka TR-B1500) in my bike and it made an incredible difference in the way it starts. My bike sounded pretty much like yours before that. My voltage on the battery was 12 + before starting but once it tried to crank over the engine the voltage would drop to 6-8volts. It didn't even have enough voltage to pull in the electric compression releases, which only compounded the problems.
It could also be that a connection between the battery and starter is bad, be it a lose terminal, bad terminal, etc.
I guess what I'm saying is that I don't "buy it" that your Tomioka battery is bad also.
compression releases make a big difference... but your bike and many others run with out them .... there must be another problem were overlooking...I got a call from the shop today. They didn't find anything wrong with my bike. They said they put it on the charger for a little while and gave it a try. With my new 465cca battery it turned over twice and then would not turn anymore. So they put one of their batteries in charged it and tried it again. The guy said it started right up that time. So he said it is possible you got a bad battery but we will load test it for you and see what we get and go from there. He suggested the compression release upgrade/modification if I keep having this problem. I asked him how much they would charge so he is going to get me the info before I go pick up the bike tomorrow.
I have a question though .... is it possible for my trickle charger to give me a "false" green light and maybe the battery really isn't charging enough? The charger I have is a 6v/12v (automated) 1.5 amp the name on the box is speedcharger and it is from autozone. Also is it possible I need something better or bigger for this new battery I just bought. Thanks for all your help guys! Just trying to make sure I have covered all my bases.