blueironranger
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- 2014 Viper XTX
2009 Phazer MTX
Well since my left heater decided to quit with only 1,500 miles on the sled I ordered up a set of RSI hooked heating elements and 8" grips for the Phazer. I decided to wire them using only the WHITE and RED wires and safely taped up the blue wire, doing it this way only uses one circuit and leave a spare incase one dies. This give the ECU a 2.8 ohm load which gives the grips 70 watts @ 14v, the stock grips are a 3.5ohm load which gives the grips 56 watts. Some people like to wire up the red and blue together which has a 1.4 ohm load on the ECU and gives 140 watts. I really didn't want to suck 140 watts/ 10 amps through a circuit that was designed for 56watts / 4 amps, others have and seem to like it.
I was pretty happy with the factory grips down to around 0*f where I had to run all 8 bars to keep them warm enough to wear gloves. With the RSI I find myself only needing 4-5 bars at the same temperature, AND they heat up in only a mile or two instead of ten. Also I've noticed they still seem to stay slightly warm at idle instead of getting cold like the stock ones when you stop for a few minutes which means you get heat almost instantly again once you take off. The extra 7 watts per grip doesn't seem like much but when you compare 28watts (stock) to 35watts (rsi) that's 25% more juice/HEAT! The whole thing cost me 80$, the local dealer wanted 57$ just for ONE factory replacement element.
Oh, one other thing, the RSI 8" Grips are AWESOME. My hands don't get sore from trying to grip the handlebars tightly to hang on. Very tacky with the diamond pattern on them.
I was pretty happy with the factory grips down to around 0*f where I had to run all 8 bars to keep them warm enough to wear gloves. With the RSI I find myself only needing 4-5 bars at the same temperature, AND they heat up in only a mile or two instead of ten. Also I've noticed they still seem to stay slightly warm at idle instead of getting cold like the stock ones when you stop for a few minutes which means you get heat almost instantly again once you take off. The extra 7 watts per grip doesn't seem like much but when you compare 28watts (stock) to 35watts (rsi) that's 25% more juice/HEAT! The whole thing cost me 80$, the local dealer wanted 57$ just for ONE factory replacement element.
Oh, one other thing, the RSI 8" Grips are AWESOME. My hands don't get sore from trying to grip the handlebars tightly to hang on. Very tacky with the diamond pattern on them.
