Issue?

[sheetwright]

I hooked up the electric shield kit from ski doo that came with my modular to my battery. The kit comes with the female end for the helmet on one end and on the other with your typical red and black wire, with battery connections. While riding the modular helmet leaked some and I think possibly shorted out the chord, and it stopped working. When I went to look at the chord , it actually got so hot it melted the coating around the two wires completely off. I think I will cut and splice it with a fuse to be safer, but should the helmet cause this? I double checked the battery draw rtx and everything seems normal, but I can't believe a brand new modular helmet full of ice or snow dust could cause this to melt like this. Any ideas, or do you think it is just a bad helmet?

 

[Vectornut]

I use the same modular helmet with the heated shield and the Yamaha (car type) plug outlet. The sled is prewired for the Yamaha plug outlet. It is on a 3 amp fuse. I had to change to a 5 amp fuse as I blew two 3 amp fuses with the Modular helmet from Ski-Doo with the electric shield. The 5 amp fuse works fine.

 

[sheetwright]

I will try a 5 amp fuse. Already use the 12v plug for my cell phone to my windshield bag. Always have to be ready for work

 

[thor452]

you prolly shorted it if you have the stinger part exposed on the chord and it touches any metal part of the sled it will short out and could cause that damage if you didnt have it fused according to the orig post it sounds like the problem was that you didnt fuse it and it shorted and cause the melting. somethings gotta give and if you dont fuse it the wire is the next weakest link.

 

[sheetwright]

Ok guessing it is the helmet now. Tried a 5 amp and it popped, then a 10 amp and it popped. Now I have a 15 amp at it is holding so far. This is a bv2s style. Weird!

 

[steiner]

Check the wires that go from the visor to into the helmet behind the visor screw. Sounds like its shorted out .

 

[yox185]

There's got to be a short, no way the shield should be drawing that much. Did you try new cords? The wire are going to continue to get hot drawing 15 amps, they are way to small gauge to handle that.

 

[MadMax]

Ya really check all things verrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrry good..... Go back to a 5 amp... You really don't want to use the "OLD" penny in the fuse box method.. MM.

 

[sheetwright]

Yep going to run all new and tear apart the helmet. This is what happens when you add ski ddo items too close to a yamaha lol