Yamaheater problem, need help divorcing it

[Firecat_Freak]

I just picked up my new to me apex. The yamaheater is on the fritz. Even with the hand warmer mid way, the red light will comes and go and switch back and forth between red and green. I checked the connections with no problems found. I'm trying to reconnect everything g back to stock and am co nfused. I'm not seeing where the hand warmer connectors go. I have one connector that is open only with the yellow with red stripe, but I'm not seeing where the other handwarmer connector goes? What am I missing? I saw two words with heat shrink over Tim, both black wit red stripes. Not sure what that is for. Someone tell me what I'm missing. Thanks

 

[heat exchange]

Here is the link to install them
http://www.yamaheater.com/Instructions-Basic.php
It may help, you can contact yamaheater ,they are very helpful

 

[Firecat_Freak]

Unfortunately I already studied them. It talks about disconnecting each handwarmer plug from a yellow/red and black connector. There is only o e such connector to plug one handwarmer back into. Not sure what's up yet. Seems stock, there may have been a two Into one connector for this yellow/red and black. But it's not here now.

 

[sleddog66]

If sled is at an idle, the light may go back and forth between red/ green due to low voltage. Just not sure if that was you original problem, but it is totally normal

 

[yox185]

PM Rockmeister he will straighten it out.

 

[Firecat_Freak]

Yeas, this was at idle. I was also seeing the green light with the switch turned off kinda blink at at an erratic rate like it was shorting or something. I just didn't want a problem with this thing taking out the stator or something until I got the answer

 

[yox185]

Rockmeister is the designer and seller of the Yamaheater. His customer service is impeccable, he will walk you through it.

 

[Fusion]

I think you are worrying about nothing. I had the same problem on the '09 Vector at idle. The red light would flash, or, if on the std warmers, it would go from green to red.
Not enough voltage at low idle.
Simple solution is to turn the idle up a bit, or what I did was only use full power on the Yamaheater after the sled is warmed up where the idle smooths out.
Generally speaking, I rarely used the full power Yamaheater unless it was really cold out.

 

[Firecat_Freak]

Sounds good, new machine to me so not used to the little quirks yet. Just was worried about a stator getting taken out. I'll talk to the designer before calling it bad, then reinstall it

 

[MrSled]

Raise the idle a tad and if it stays one color then your set, if not, send it back to rock, I have seen this before and he has replaced the bad units.

 

[Firecat_Freak]

I can't be certain, but I think I did try increasing rpm just with the throttle and it was doing the same thing. I think at this point I'd feel better with either replacing it with a new one or getting this one looked at by the Mfgr. I'll tell you what, the stock Warner's in the stock configuration doesn't work worth a hoot.

 

[Fusion]

I can't be certain, but I think I did try increasing rpm just with the throttle and it was doing the same thing. I think at this point I'd feel better with either replacing it with a new one or getting this one looked at by the Mfgr. I'll tell you what, the stock Warner's in the stock configuration doesn't work worth a hoot.

I thought the same thing when I started with Yamaha's in 2009. The warmers do not work in stock config., until you put some RPM's thru the motor.
Once you are on the trail and powering corner to corner at higher RPM's the warmers come to life.
I for the life of me can't figure why Yamaha would have designed them to work this way. Probably saving engineering dollars on stator costs.
But for sleds this technologically advanced, it makes no sense why they would have overlooked this detail.
Quite frankly, it doesn't say much about their engineering teams, but I've learned to live with it considering the bullet-proof, flawless performances out of their motors.