Hey i just bought a new scorpio alarm and had it installed on my bike and two days later the bike battery was dead. My bike is only two weeks old(cbr 600 2008) and i had the batt replaced and it did it again. I dont even have the alarm armed so i dont know whats going on. I believe they installed it wrong somewhere. Any help?
Todd

 

i will let u know as soon i put mine in because i just bought one and I'm going to put it in this weekend ,but it would suck if that alarmdoes that to battery.

 

I also have an alarm on my 07 600rr. Just last week I had mine taken out only because I also was having to charge the battery every week. In my opinion go back to where you had the alarm installed and tell them to do a proper rewiring. Or just take the alarm off the bike altogether. You do not want to have an incident where your far away from home and you have trouble starting the bike all because the alarm drained all the battery power. If anyone would want to steal your bike they will with or without an alarm. They only need to cut one or 2 wire and there off with your bike. But if you want to keep the alarm buy yourself a decent battery and go back to the installer so they can fix this problem.

 

yea i agree, be sure they cut the right wire and wired it correctly. i vaguely recall in the manual when i set it up at home, that if you wire it incorrectly, the battery will die. and the dealerships also tell me to be careful as well. i wish i could tell ya which wire it was, but i had mine installed a while back when i first bought the bike too. good choice of alarm though, its amazing.

 

I just installed the i900 and noticed that the battery was 'tired' even while installing it....even though it bounced back after we finished it. I havent run it since (two days) so who knows, it might just be dead! I am having an issue with the RFID system and the ignition kill...I just dont have time to mess with it since I work so much...

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i dont understand.. are the bike batteries just that much weaker than car ones? i know they are smaller and what not, but you could leave a car sitting with an alarm (which most cars have) for weeks maybe a month or 2, start it, and it would be fine..

why not a bike?

 

I dont know what happened but i took the whole bike back because it is only 3 weeks old and ive had this problem with the battery the whole time i told them to just take the alarm out im returning it. Whata big pain in my ***. Im gonna stick with a disc lock and get my 450.00 back.

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I dont know how all your alarms are but I got a much cheaper one and the manual says to connect the 12v to the red terminal on the battery and the ground to the negative terminal. I found out the hard way that thats not good for the battery life. The easy fix for me was to connect the ground to the frame. Hopefully thats helps.

 

My battery has been doing fine minus the fact that I have a wire screwed up somewhere- my ignition disable doesnt work nor does the RFID. I called them and figured out the issue, I just havent had the time to fix it.

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I have a Scorpio, during the winter months I might go for a couple of weeks without riding. Alarm on the whole time, no battery problems. Either bad battery or wired wrong.