Finally warm hands, RSI work great!!!!!

I wired red- blue together and ended up burning out both sides actually burned 2 holes in the grips. I think they may have gotten too warm and softened the element adhesive causing the elements to move and cause a short against each other.
 
Goddo said:
RSI instructions say wire Blue and White together. Why is everyone deviating from instructions? Is the red blue wiring more effective?

Thanks
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Combining the BLUE and RED wire creates a lower resistance circuit that just about doubles the output over your stock grip heaters. A problem with this configuration is the RSI heater will be running well above its designed output.

I’ve been around the block on this issue several times and the solution I now prefer is to use the RSI heater elements in combination with the stock heaters on each grip. If you wire the stock and RSI heaters in parallel, using the 12.4 ohm leg of the RSI unit, you’ll get about 46 watts per grip and both heaters will be operating within their respective design parameters.

I put the RSI heaters on TOP of my grips and then covered these with a fabric shrink-wrap, which has held up extraordinarily well this season. There are other options for covering the RSI heaters, but the fabric shrink wrap adds very little to the overall diameter of the grip. There’s a warm-up period of several minutes but they do get hot and stay hot during a ride.

Below is an image of the grip and a schematic for connecting the RSI into your system. Send me a PM if you’d like additional details on implementing this mod.
 

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I put mine on and thier is almost no need to go past the 4 bar rode in 0 degre and was really working well very happy................
 
I wired them Red/Blue as per instructions on this site. I took the sled for a 40 mile rip this morning and my thumb was jealous at how warm my hands were. I had the heaters on high, but I will likely run them at 4 from now on.

Happy hands...
 
Goddo said:
I wired them Red/Blue as per instructions on this site. I took the sled for a 40 mile rip this morning and my thumb was jealous at how warm my hands were. I had the heaters on high, but I will likely run them at 4 from now on.

Happy hands...
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I imagine mine will work even better when I install the RSI carbon fiber bars, the elements will have some insulation to work with. This mod rocks and the grips are 100% better then stock!!
 
do your hands stick on these grips? i kinda like that you can slide your hands on the stock ones, but i guess grips are supposed to grip. :Rockon:
 
The RSI grips are REAL tacky comapares to the stock ones. I had them on my 09' and while I didn't use grip glue I did put the grips on with a blow gun and messing around they seemed fine. After each ride I would have to reposition them on the bar as about 1-2 inches would be stretched off the end. I didn't use the grip glue mainly because I didn't know if the grips were going to last as they seemed so much softer. I should note that I wired the heaters in with the RSI switch, so I had switched power hi/low to the elements, in other words exactly how they were intended to be wired. Well 130 miles into a 1000 mile backpack trip I feel a sharp pinpoint burn on my right hand. Yup, the grip has a big melt hole in it and the element is toast. Now I have no warmers as I didn't want to run just the one side for fear of the other blowing the fuse anyway. Just when I thought I had the warmer issue fixed, as this setup was working great, I was without anything. Needless to say it was some of the coldest temps we've rode in yet. -18*F at night and not much above 10*F during the day. Luckily I had hot packs that I intended on using as a backup if someone else's sled was to have issues. Not sure if gluing the grip would have prevented this or not, it is likely that the twisting of the grip over the element wore though the coating and shorted things out. However I would say that if you ride hard and seem to put ware on the stock grips you will likely be replacing the RSI grips each year as the compound is much softer. Just a heads up.

I'll be going back to the not so warm but better than nothing stockers.
 
I cut the hooks and installed streight Vector grips, wired in series as they where on the Vector, foamed the handlebars and I have had ample grip heat all winter with no adverse affects what so ever.
 
arteeex said:
If they are wired in series in a DC circuit the second grip in line will have half the output of the other.
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Not true. Two resistors of equal value wired in series will each consume the same amount of power in an AC or DC circuit.

In a series circuit the current flow is the same through both resistors because there is only one path. If the resistance of both resistors (grips) is equal, the power is equal.

Take for example a 12 volt circuit (AC or DC) with two 5 ohm resistors wired in series.

Total resistance is 10 Ohms (R1 + R2)

Total current draw is 1.2 Amps (E = I x R)

Total power consuption is 14.4 Watts (P = I x E)

In this example each resistor will consume 7.2 Watts.
 
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