can a car battery be used IN PLACE OF a motorcycle battery?

Question

I Just bought a project bike for fun, and before i buy a battery i want to know if it will even work once i get it. I hooked up the jumper cables to the battery in my brothers car, the car was off. i then got the other end of the cables and hooked them up to the terminals on the motorcycle. should the motorcycle have turned on when i tried to start it? (the motorcycle has no battery in it)

Answer 1

Sure. Cars and motorcycles use the same voltage batteries. The difference being only current output (measured in amps) and physical size.

Answer 2

Is the bike the same voltage as the car? Is the polarity correct? If so, the bike won't care if the battery power comes from an installed battery or one hooked up with cables, provided the battery is charged, of course. As long as the correct voltage and polarity are applied to the bike power connectors, the bike does not care and should work exactly as you would expect. You won't be driving around with a car battery as it is simply too big to fit in place, but otherwise, you should be able to operate the complete electrical system with an external battery connected with cables.

Answer 3

A car battery will work on a motorcycle. If you had it hooked up properly the motorcycle should have started. You might want to check that the positive was hooked to the positive cable, also make sure that you have a good ground connection. A poor ground will make it hard to get the power to your bike.

Answer 4

Easy answer... yes. HOWEVER your limitations are not application (car or bike) but voltage and size. If you are 12 volt and it fits in the space provided on the bike it's ok. Batteries are spec'd more by cold crank than anything... smaller batteries will not crank a car so deemed ATV or bike battery.. but a car battery will crank a bike, just too big to fit. We use car batteries all the time when cranking a big hi comp v twins in the shop because we depleat the m/c battery too fast. If wired correctly your bike should've cranked.

Answer 5

Most modern motorcycles (I mean like last 20 years) all have 12 volt dc battery just like a car. You can use the car battery to jump it and test lites ect. Of course the car battery wont fit in the motorcycle but it wont do it harm if you hook positive to positive and neg to neg.

Yes, the lites, neutral indicator etc should come on when you jump it just as if it had its own battery.

Answer 6

as long as your project bike has a 12 volt system, which most modern bikes are, it should work.

Answer 7

Yes you can modd the car battery to work for the motorcycle battery but make sure it won't make the motorcycle too heavy on one side by making the other side heavy.

Answer 8

get proper battery before anything....[red = positive]

Answer 9

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Easiest is to find a 6V battery for a car, motorcycle, golf cart, etc. Did you try one of the battery supply places for a rechargeable or battery with more storage capacity? The only way to use a 12 V battery would be to wire a 6 V load in SERIES with your camera. You could wire two or more of the lantern batteries in PARALLEL which would probably extend the time your cam would run. I would ask the manufacturer about this. PS DONT connect two 12V batteries in SERIES as suggested, this will provide 24V and you don't want that.

Answer 10

i have, and seen others, cook an older motorcycle solenoid using the higher amperage that a car battery produces. jumping the existing battery buffers those extra amps. so its safer to jump the battery than using a car battery in place of the proper existing battery even if its dead.

Answer 11

To answer one question, it will definitely not work w/o a battery, so go get one anyway. That's like saying " I just bought this car, but before I go and put gas in it, I wanna make sure it needs it." Get the battery. As for the other one, well, you have a lot of answers that say yes, it will work, and yes, it should've started, and ran until you unhooked the cables. You will prolly need help figuring out what it wrong w/ it, seeing as how it is a project, and you already ran into probs w/ something as minimal as jumping it. Good luck!