Topic: 1979 cb650 battery issues((urgent please help))

[MMICAFE]

i replaced my battery less than 4 months ago. a few weeks ago it died on me so i did what i thought was right and i charged it then it died on me again. so i kept putting it on the charger everynight so i wouldnt have a dead battery when i went out and i didnt feel like being stranded in downtown houston. alot of the charging system has been replaced by the previous owner. besides a bad battery and a dead cell or 2 what what would the problem be. i really need it to be just a bad battery because i dont have the money to replace anything big and expensive.

[scunny]

test between the positive lead and a good ground on your frame with a multi meter. with the key off you shouldn't have a circuit. if that's fine it's your battery

[MMICAFE]

ok so i shouldnt get any kind of reading between the battery positive and ground on the frame with the key off? what reading on the multi meter be at? when you say circuit what do you mean?

[scunny]

battery diconnected and meter on the ohms(resistance) scale. your meter may show this as omega from the greek alphabet.

[MMICAFE]

i just did as scunny told me to do i tested positive on the multi meter to positive on the battery terminal and negative on the meter to a good ground on the frame and didnt get anything then i switched positive to the ground on the frame and negative on the multi meter to positive on the battery terminal when i switched i got a reading what way was right for the test scunny told me to do and whats wrong? the key was out and bike was off and i hope i just need a new battery and not something more expensive.