Heated Gear arrived

[davepa]

Spent last evening in the garage installing the wiring for my newly acquired heated jacket liner, gloves, and dual portable remote on my VR and Ultra. If you saw an earlier post which I asked for input from all the heated gear users here, I ordered from http://www.warmnsafe.com/

 

I rechecked my connections this morning and went for a little ride towards Altoona, PA. ended up a 107 mile round trip on the Ultra.

 

The air temp was 43 degrees as measured by the gauge in my fairing.

 

At 70mph on RT99/220 I was chilled, turned on the jacket liner to full power and within several minutes I was too hot. Turned the knob slowly to 1/8 power and results perfect , with my feet out on the highway pegs, I was comfortable.

 

The gloves at 43 degree where to warm when powered on even with the adjustment knob at the lowest setting. So they should be perfect when the temp drops some.

 

The great part no bulky clothing.

I was wearing a long sleeve t-shirt, heated liner, and leather jacket, chaps, 3/4 helmet with shield up.

 

My riding season has just been extended!

 

Now to take out the VR and see how the charging system handles the added electrical drain.

 

Looking back, I should have made this purchase years ago....thanks again for the responses

 

Regards Dave

[MasterGuns]

I have the same pieces you have but also the socks and pants liner. My Ultra handles the load for all this stuff without issue. However, the VR (86) does. I'd be careful with too much load on the VR. The Ultra has a 48 amp charging system while the VR (lst editions anyway) have only 28. Without any accessories, the VR is using about 15 amps of juice. I wired in a switch so as to be able to turn off the headlight. I wouldnt have any problem doing so during daylight hours and if out in the boonies. It saves about 5 or 6 of those amps for other things. Some will disagree with my switching the headlight off, but if I was on the VR and about to freeze in sub-freezing temps and had all the warming gear on and turned up, I'd wouldn't hesitate to switch off the headlight conditions permitting.

[Grisolm1]

I have Gerbings heated jacket liner and gloves with dual control. No pants or socks, I use a good wool socks and a set of rain pants, no problem there.

 

Ran on highway last year with an unfaired bike on the highway 28 degrees, 80 mph, full face helmet with a neck dickie. Toasty:225:.

 

My new (to me) 88Vstd seems to handle the load just fine even with my auxiliary lights on. Looking at the volt meter I see Much less drop plugging my suit in than I do hitting the brakes (dual tail light bulbs and Anti Dive I guess....). Actually I see no drop plugging in. Have done several multi hour rides with no issues.

 

Heated clothes are the best investment anyone in colder climates can make, extends riding season by 3-4 months for me.