Heated Clothing

[Guest tx2sturgis]

I see, the teflon insulation is for the high melting temperature. I don't know what the melting point of the Kynar 460 insulation would be. That's not given on RS's website.

 

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Yep...my guess is, the wires reach a temp of a couple of hundred degrees...you dont want the insulation melting, and the wires touching bare metal to metal...shorts are BAD news when they catch you on fire!

[loehring]

Sometimes I wish I were as mechanically inclined as the people here on this site. For those who are as challenged as I am, I bought the classic jacket liner and gloves last year aong with a dual control and love them. The connectors are the same as Gerbing and I haven't been able to find a quality difference either. Just about half the price.

 

http://cozywinters.com/heated-clothing/

[pegscraper]

There are many other good tech articles on the general tech page of the BMW site that Scott mentioned.

 

http://www.ibmwr.org/otech.shtml

 

Some are about heated gear, and some other general tech stuff. Check out this one on repairing an electric vest. It shows a pic of the inside of a Gerbing vest and describes it in detail. Interesting.

 

http://www.ibmwr.org/otech/vestrepair.html

 

For next summer, there's a good one on making your own evaporative cooling vest.