Heated Gloves/Liners Controller + Y Harness?

IMHO the jacket liner is well worth it to get rid of the Y harness as is a pain to use. I had the boss sew in some loops for the Y but still a PITA to use. the jacket liner is pretty warm even without it turned on.
 
MidLife said:
No heated grips on the bike yet, but as it already has a Gerbing pick up installed, was thinking about heated gloves or liners in the meantime and curious about what controller you were using with your set up?

And also, excuse my ignorance on that, how to route the Y-Harness to the gloves? Is it to be fed inside the jacket and down the sleeves or to be externally connected directly to the gloves? Cannot quite picture something very clean for that.
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I had my Gerbing heated gloves from 2006-2022... same gloves the entire time. I found heated grips alone didn't cut it in extreme cold temps. I originally was using the single zone Gerbing variable controller until a wire broke in it. Then I bought a Heat Demon controller from someone on this forum, or maybe more likely the ADV Rider forum, about 4 years ago and it worked even better. Don't know if the Heat Demon controller is available any more but the Gerbing single zone controllers are available. With a heated jacket liner or vest you would likely use a dual zone controller.

I routed my Y cable through my jacket and down the sleeves between the thermal liner and outer layer of the jacket. I just left it in for the entire cold season. The Y cable has one leg longer than the other. I put the joint connector at the bottom of my jacket on the left side (held to the jacket adjustment strap by a Velcro strap) and the longer leg of the Y cable ran down the right arm. This worked well for the 16 years I used them. I did try once with the Y cable outside the jacket but the dangling wires were a bother so back inside they went. It actually was a clean install. I mounted the heat controller to connect to the Y cable at the left bottom of my jacket. I would plug in after mounting the bike.
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When I bought my current ride I had heated grips. I used the Gerbing gloves until I figured out what I wanted to do with the heated grips. After comments from others here and also doing a little research I decided to use Kemimoto handlebar muffs (Kemimoto ATV gloves). They are stiff enough I can pull my gloved hands out and put them back in easily without fussing and with the heated grips they create heated caves for my hands. I can use lighter weight gloves (mid-weight) and I only need my heated grips set to the middle setting (2 out of 3) and my hands are warm down to zeroF. YMMV depending on the heated grips used. Naturally using handlebar muffs requires that you KNOW your controls without looking. I do.
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kiltman said:
In a couple of weeks, I will be using all the Gear all the time to stay warm. ;)
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Uncle Phil said:
If you think the heated shirt was good, you would find the heated gloves great! ;)
The best I found were the heated gloves from Gordons (the restarted original Gerbing) but they went shut during Covid.
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I needed an extension cord, so while at it, ordered a pair of Gerbing 12v gloves. If my wife says anything about another box being delivered, you're taking the fall..
:)
 
Obo said:
My heated gear (H-D, not Gerbing) had the controller built in the jacket and had prewired connectors for the gloves (which I didn't have) to connect at the sleeves.
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Similar setup. My Warm n Safe Jacket Liner has wiring and connectors for gloves and pants built-in. There's a receiver for the wireless controller I've mounted on the clutch reservoir. A tidy setup. If I had to run a wire myself down the sleeve to a glove it would be too annoying in no time flat. So built-in is good.
 
Uncle Phil said:
you would find the heated gloves great!
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I've got a set of H-D gloves that plug into my WnS jacket. Surprisingly without heat they're warmest gloves I've ever had. Add a bit of heat and I'm good. Heated gloves are a huge improvement for me. Riding in bitter cold 50º weather made my hands hurt in short order no matter what gloves I wore. The H-D gloves helped a bit but when I turned on the heat — wow!

My legs don't feel the cold much though my feet used to get so cold it hurt a little to walk till they got some circulation going. A heated jacket and later the addition of gloves made a world of difference.
 
ST Gui said:
My legs don't feel the cold much though my feet used to get so cold it hurt a little to walk till they got some circulation going. A heated jacket and later the addition of gloves made a world of difference.
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As far as feet go, years ago a company made 'feet' shields for the ST1100 that mounted under the tipover winds and are quite unobtrusive.
But they keep a lot of the wind and water off the feet which keeps my feet a lot warmer.
I only have 60% blood flow in my left leg (blood clot from a medical device) and about 80% in my right one (repair to an aneurysm).
So my feet are really sensitive to cold and wet.
I have heated socks and heated insoles but after I got the shields I don't ever use them.
Unfortunately, the version they made for the ST1300 was not very good at all.
You can see the ST1100 version here (down under the open Highway Wing) -

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I think with a little 'noodling' someone could come up with a good one for the ST1300.
The 'original' ones were made out of plexiglas, but I had some fabbed up out of lightweight aluminum as the old ones got brittle over time and broke.
 
Warm-n-Safe jacket liner, Gerbing gloves, Warm-n-Safe Dual zone wireless heattroller to control gloves and jacket separately. After using this setup I'll never use anything else. The Gerbing gloves have their own 4-step controller with Y-harness, but I've only used that a few times. The infinite control of the heattroller is excellent.
 
rwthomas1 said:
Warm-n-Safe jacket liner, Gerbing gloves, Warm-n-Safe Dual zone wireless heattroller to control gloves and jacket separately. After using this setup I'll never use anything else. The Gerbing gloves have their own 4-step controller with Y-harness, but I've only used that a few times. The infinite control of the heattroller is excellent.
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Was first looking at a similar wireless control set up, but with just one zone for the gloves.

WnS offers a one zone wireless remote controller.....but they themselves talked me out of it, because of not being really waterproof they said. Strange, But couldn't convince myself to still give it a try.
 
MidLife said:
Was first looking at a similar wireless control set up, but with just one zone for the gloves...
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I know you're saying you only want/need one zone, but...

I too started with only one zone for gloves. About a year later, I bought my first heated jacket liner. ...which I had not planned initially to buy. Now, I had to buy a two zone controller. If I'd bought that initially, I'd been money ahead.

Chris
 
Speaking of heated gloves , need to disinfect the inner lining that doesn't come. Anyone got a good way to do that?
 
Daboo said:
I know you're saying you only want/need one zone, but...

I too started with only one zone for gloves. About a year later, I bought my first heated jacket liner. ...which I had not planned initially to buy. Now, I had to buy a two zone controller. If I'd bought that initially, I'd been money ahead.

Chris
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I hear you.

But you are up North and I am down South.

Heated seat and grips have been fine for the last 20 years. And the grips have been used more in the rain than actual biting cold.

Liners are just stop gap until I can figure out how to route grips on top of the nightmarish messy undocumented maze of wiring/tapping already in place on this newer (ABS) ST. Maybe the liners will stick in the end......
 
St-Gerard said:
Speaking of heated gloves , need to disinfect the inner lining that doesn't come. Anyone got a good way to do that?
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Disinfect? If you truly want them disinfected, I'd get a small ionizer (they are made for CPAP hoses for not much money) and insert the output tube into the gloves.
 
rjs987 said:
I routed my Y cable through my jacket and down the sleeves between the thermal liner and outer layer of the jacket. I just left it in for the entire cold season. The Y cable has one leg longer than the other. I put the joint connector at the bottom of my jacket on the left side (held to the jacket adjustment strap by a Velcro strap) and the longer leg of the Y cable ran down the right arm. This worked well for the 16 years I used them. I did try once with the Y cable outside the jacket but the dangling wires were a bother so back inside they went. It actually was a clean install. I mounted the heat controller to connect to the Y cable at the left bottom of my jacket. I would plug in after mounting the bike.
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Looking at the different setups, I might be able to keep it simple as I am using liners only.

----First put the liners on with Y-Harness plugged in, then get into the jacket, the liners are thin enough to allow that and are pulling the wires with them down the sleeves.

Whatever the drawbacks, it may still be OK for occasional use.
 
MidLife said:
Was first looking at a similar wireless control set up, but with just one zone for the gloves.

WnS offers a one zone wireless remote controller.....but they themselves talked me out of it, because of not being really waterproof they said. Strange, But couldn't convince myself to still give it a try.
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I have the single wireless W&S controller for both their liner and gloves. Has always been adequate and no problem in rain. I ride year round.
 
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