.Last night I went into the garage and out of the corner of my eye spotted something was wrong. I'd left the "ignition" on. Not good
.I have a power connector wired into my battery for both charging and to run a sat nav etc so I plugged my charger in. Nothing. Dead as a doornail. My charger is a quite recent one and automatically switches between charging and trickle charging but it wasn't even registering the battery was there. I was not happy. Put a voltmeter across the battery and nothing there at all. I'm sure many have experienced this before where the battery never works again afterwards.
Several swear words later I had an idea. I have an old car battery in the garage that is vaguely charged up. I connected this across the bike battery with crocodile clips, left it a few minutes, held my breath and plugged the charger in. Voila! It switched onto charging mode. I tentatively took off the car battery and the bike charger remained running.
Left overnight, green light this morning and my bike battery is working as good as it did before.
I'm going to be a damn sight more careful next time but just wanted to share the above. It might save you buying a new battery or thinking your old one is dead in similar circumstances.
