ZZR250 bike battery, dead, use a lawn-mower battery, to test bike?

Question

I just bought myself a 1995 Kawasaki ZZR250, and upon purchase, the battery was completly dead, and wil not charge.

The battery is a small, I believe 6v battery, will I be able to take the battery out of my rideon lawn mover, which is also a 6v battery, but much larger in physical size, and attach my bike terminals to it, to test the bikes electronics, or in doing this, will I blow all the bikeas fuzes and electronics?

Answer 1

nah dude as long as there the same voltage ur good since the mower battery is a bigger battery its gonna push more amps, amps work like this its hard to describe its the amount that is bein drawn, if ur guages draw a half amp thats all there gonna get  but it'll work fine

Answer 2

as i thought, it looks like its a 12 volt battery, you can verify by number of cells ect. If it is, jumper cables to your car ect.

Answer 3

make sure of the bikes battery voltage first  6 or 12 . it is more than likely 12.  i wouldn't mess with any other batteries, i would just purchase the right on from your local motorcycle shop , they will be able to get you the right one from the info off of your bike  i.e. vin, make , model , size etc.  one rule of thumb for finding the voltage of small batteries is   3 cells (the caps where you put the electrolyte) 6 volt .  6 cells 12 volt, but take the info to your local shop and let them get you the right one, this might just save you more expense of replcing things you smoked with the wrong voltage. hope this helps

Answer 4

dont do it, just go buy yourself a battery tender jr from a local bike shop, you will need it down the road anyway, i picked mine up for $30, itll charge your battery and keep it charged in the downtime

Answer 5

Nobody has made a six volt motorcycle in 40 years. It's 12 volts. You can test the bike with any 12 volt battery that's at least as big as the old one, but if it's been sitting dead for several months, it's going to be bad and you might as well get a new one.  

Answer 6

Boy, I don't think I can be any more clear than Ace, but I'll give it my best shot.  

With wet cell batteries, each cell produces 2 volts, so a battery with 6 caps is going to be 12 volts.

A lawnmower battery is going to have the ability to deliver more amps than the size battery currently in your bike, but that's not a problem.  Just make sure you connect the positive (+) and negative (-) terminals correctly.  

Incidently, a battery doesn't "push" amps, devices such as light bulbs draw amps (also called current) from the battery.  Just like soda doesn't push itself up a straw, but rather you have to suck it up the straw.

A battery does, for lack of a better term, push voltage.  Voltage is electrical pressure and without current, it's nothing.  To better explain, think of electricity in a wire as you would water in a hose.  The water itself is akin to amps (current) and without pressure (voltage) to push it out of the hose, it's just going to set there doing nothing.  Conversely, you can have lots of pressure but if the nozzle at the end of the hose is closed, no water comes out and no work gets done.  Measuring the amount of water that comes out (gallons) is akin to watts, a quantity measurement of electricity.  

I hope that is a little more succinct than Ace's explaination.