Battery powered heated shields and goggles

[TheMogulMogul]

Ok so I know that the 509 Ignite goggles are lithium battery powered but I haven't seen any battery powered heated shields. Why the heck not? Couldn't we simply wire up a electric shield cable to a USB male and then connect it to one of those external cell phone charger battery packs and just throw the pack in an inside pocket?

I've always had full face helmets in the past but I'm seriously thinking about getting a MX style carbon helmet from Klim or 509 and adding the heated battery powered googles. Lil fog? Hit the button on your helmet and then turn it off. Only issue is that extra battery packs are really expensive ($80) which is way too high. You can get those big cell phone chargers for like $30. Or buy the cells and wire and heat shrink your own (RC guys do it all the time).

I've never had a MX style helmet but worry about 2 things. One is that I typically ride fast and that visor must make things very uncomfortable, the other is how well they do in the deep cold of a mountain night.

 

[Pstn head]

Someone needs to come with that, a rechargeable battery powered visor. Your spot on about the deflector on the top of the helmet ...from my experience that thing catches wind at high speed and I got sick of looking through the top of my eye balls so I instantly went back to a closed helmet, I also found it cold. This was many years ago, maybe the new technology in these mx style helmets have improved.

 

[snowfever27]

The new snow specific open face helmets visors don’t catch the wind like the old ones. There’s so many vents in them they are there for looks and they do allow you to tip your head down and block the sun when it’s at the weird angle coming up over a hill. I have both styles. The new MX style helmets can be warm.... but it it’s -20F and you’re cruising along with a fly screen windshield. You’re going to get cold. Nothing will beat a full face helmet when it gets super cold.

 

[cannondale27]

Someone needs to come with that, a rechargeable battery powered visor. Your spot on about the deflector on the top of the helmet ...from my experience that thing catches wind at high speed and I got sick of looking through the top of my eye balls so I instantly went back to a closed helmet, I also found it cold. This was many years ago, maybe the new technology in these mx style helmets have improved.

https://ty4stroke.com/threads/cordless-heated-shield.132163/

 

[Rockmeister]

The main problem is you can't store enough energy to do the job & still be able to carry it around.
A battery pack gets way too heavy to carry if you want it to last any real useable amount of time.
The colder it is, the worse the problem.

The Electric Goggles have the exact same issue, the battery packs only last a couple hours then are dead.
Is why we make a P&P Goggle Power supply that solves that issue.

A wire to your bars/sled is much lighter than a large battery on your helmet or in your coat.
(Wire is not always as convenient, yet much lighter.)
Hope this helps!