Thanks for all the feed back
. Since my last thread spoke with a gees he says to take a car bat. jump it to the the bike bat take a volt reading. Fire it up, if it cranks & fires that will eliminate any stater fault. Shut it down take another volt check leve the jumps hooked up for a cuple of days. Then take again a volt check if it hasent dropped by doing this I could eliminate any power drain. Would this seem fesable to say the bats. failed ![nixweiss :nixweiss:](http://www.cvoharley.com/smf/Smileys/CVO/nixweiss.gif)
It would be much easier to just have the battery load tested. In the USA most car and motorcycle shops can load test batteries, and many of our auto supply stores will actually test them for free.
At five years old, and with the symptoms and voltages you originally posted, I'd say the odds are very high that your battery is ready for the grave yard. A fully charged battery should have open circuit (no load) voltage across the terminals of 12.8 volts. And when you crank the engine, the voltage should not drop below 9.6 volts. If you leave the voltmeter hooked up to the battery as you crank the engine, I'll bet your voltage is dropping well below that figure. Make sure you use a real voltmeter, not the gauge on the dash, to do your testing.
Jerry