Yuasa’s Digital Battery Tester works on any powersports battery, sealed or conventional.

Bubble packed with all the leads and accessories included, Yuasa’s Digital Multimeter is a quality, no-nonsense tool.

uestion: Where better to look for everything needed to keep a battery in great shape than to the company that made the battery? Yuasa supplies the OE battery to just about every motorcycle manufacturer in the world, and Yuasa backs all that up with a full line of battery-maintenance equipment, too. It’s all here, too, everything from Digital Battery Testers to handy Digital Multimeters, from battery chargers to accessory leads and fused connector rings. There’s even compact jumper cables sized and gauged specifically for motorcycles and powersport equipment. Every one of those Yuasa accessories is aimed at the enthusiast, is economically priced, and the packaging is bright and splashy for an eye-catching display and a quick sale.
     Yuasa’s Digital Battery Tester is the latest addition to this lineup. It’s the only digital battery tester for the market, too. Perfect around the shop, the tester works on all types of batteries, sealed or conventional, and in seconds it’ll tell you what shape a battery’s in–if it’s good to go, needs a recharge, or if there’s a bad cell and it’s time for a replacement. That Digital Multimeter is equally handy. Besides being the perfect tester for a motorcycle’s charging system, there are hundreds of other uses for a multimeter and no toolbox should be without one.
     No garage is complete without a battery charger around, and Yuasa offers a couple beauties. More than just “chargers,” these are true battery maintenance devices. They’ll bring a flat battery back to life, and they’ll maintain a strong battery at full charge indefinitely. If space is an issue Yuasa has the SmartShot 900, a really compact and fully automatic 900 mA three-stage charger/maintenance tool. It fits in the palm of your hand and plugs right into a wall socket. Twelve-foot output leads connect to the battery. Need more power? Yuasa’s has a 1.5 amp charger/maintenance station, this one featuring five-stage circuitry that pre-qualifies and evaluates a battery before switching into a bulk-charge mode, then into an absorption mode to equalize each cell’s charge, then into a float mode to maintain that charge. There’s even a 28-day “Charge Recycle” feature that’ll re-evaluate the battery’s status when it’s set on long-term storage. Both Yuasa chargers/maintenance tools are totally hands-off, monitored at a glance with a row of LED lights, and they’re both bullet-proof tough.
     Add in everything else Yuasa’s got, that full assortment of accessory leads and fused connector rings to make charger hook-up fast and easy and those trick little motorcycle-sized jumper cables that’ll tuck into any saddlebag or trail-side toolbox, and it’s pretty clear that Yuasa, the company that makes the most batteries in the industry, has everything to go with those batteries, too. Parts Unlimited stocks the full line.

Yuasa’s SmartShot 900 is a compact, fully automatic three-stage charger/maintenance tool.