Anyone wireup RSI heaters for dual power?

[blueironranger]

Well, 1,500 miles on my Phazer and the left handwarmer shorted out due to a poor factory install job which had kinked up the element. I ordered up the RSI elements, grips, and grip glue. I don't like the way that some wire it up with both elements and Low 1.5 omh load on the ECU. My Idea is to use the white as a ground and wire up the factory ecu side to the Blue WITH diodes and then wire up the reds to a toggle switch with battery power. This way the ECU is only trying to power a 3 ohm circuit, close to the factory 3.5 ohm and IF I need more heat I can toggle on the other circuit to warm them up quick.With the Diodes on the ECU side it will protect the ECU from being back fed straight 12v power. I checked the black wires on the phazer and one of the wires is defiantly a full time ground as it shows 0.0 ohms resistance to the negative on the battery with the key off, key on, starting, and running.

 

[NyTrOMaNIaC]

I say wire'm up red and blue together ! I've been running them this way on my 08 FX Nytro RTX since last year, and nothing but hot hands since. My buddy is an electrician, and he said nothing to worry about. Beforehand, I was looking for more heat, but now, I can turn them down and still have warm, toasty hands. Lots of guys will say the same, no worries at all

 

[blueironranger]

I say wire'm up red and blue together ! I've been running them this way on my 08 FX Nytro RTX since last year, and nothing but hot hands since. My buddy is an electrician, and he said nothing to worry about. Beforehand, I was looking for more heat, but now, I can turn them down and still have warm, toasty hands. Lots of guys will say the same, no worries at all

I've been thinking about it, the Phazer uses the same basic ECU design. I still don't relly like the idea of pulling over double the power through the ECU though. I was pretty happy with how warm they got before, it just took 10 minutes for them to get up to temperature. The RSI grips I got seem to have a bit less resistance than what some others have gotten, with the red/blue twisted together I'm only seeing 2.8ohms, that is only 1.4ohm load paired up, my stock ones are 7.0 ohms, 3.5 ohms paired up. I'm seeing 6.0 ohms on the blue and 5.7 ohms on the red, either of which should be warmer than the stock ones.

 

[arteeex]

I run two sets of RSI heaters on each grip. Doing this you're able to wire them to provide 4+ Ohms per side.

The RSI grips are setup to provide 6+ and 12+ Ohms on the high and low power circuit, respectively. You get the 4+ Ohms by connecting the high circuit of one with the low circuit of the other in the two heater setup.

If you want to stay near stock with a single RSI heater per grip connect the red and white together as one leg and use the blue for the other. This will give you about 6 Ohms too but engage the full heating element. (Double check this configuration as I'm working from a failing memory, but there are two combinations of the wiring that will provide the output.)