Do Low/Med/Hi Heaters work on our Matryx rmk?

[User Name]

Looking for some extended bar heaters for curved bars and it seems CFR is out of stock.

Curious if anyone knows of any plug and play alternatives before I go splicing.

I noticed the Polaris Lo/Med/Hi Part 2414331 for AXYS Indy has 3 wires - Could I plug this in and use it as a lo/hi? Obviously I'm not expecting to keep 3 settings of heat but not sure if that's wishful thinking

 

[volcano buster]

Does the Matryx have a 4 wire element?

 

[Sheetmetalfab]

Nope.
3 wire hi low only.

RMK at least.

 

[User Name]

Does the Matryx have a 4 wire element?

I'm pretty sure they switched connectors when they went to 850 in the AXYS chassis and Rmk Matryx is still using those same connectors - all of them are 3 wires.

Trail sleds on Matryx have smart warmers so I'm ignoring all those parts

So, I guess what I'm wondering is how those AXYS trail heaters work. If Low is 1 set of elements, medium is another (larger) element and high is both the elements together, it seems they would still work as low/hi when controlled by the RMK switches.

 

[volcano buster]

Just curious if the medium setting has a resistor at the switch and dumps the residual juice into the "high" circuit of the element.

 

[ExcursionPSD]

Does the Matryx have a 4 wire element?

 

[volcano buster]

?

 

[Fat_Tones]

I've tried several of those curved heater elements and I still think the best ones are the stock Polaris heaters. Just put them on the straight part of the bar and build up some electrical tape on the curved part. I know it seems counter intuitive as there's no heater on the curved part, but the grips get super hot when riding. For years I was buying those extended ones and soldering/splicing, until one time they were sold out everywhere and someone told me to just use the stock Polaris RMK ones. My OCD resisted, but I reluctantly tried and now it's all I use. I also like that the Polaris ones have insulation on the back, which still gives a thinner end result than using cork with an aftermarket heater. CFR Kersterke (SDG) bars with Skidoo X Deep Snow grips. Have this exact setup on both my and my wife's sleds and it works very nice.

 

[User Name]

I've tried several of those curved heater elements and I still think the best ones are the stock Polaris heaters. Just put them on the straight part of the bar and build up some electrical tape on the curved part. I know it seems counter intuitive as there's no heater on the curved part, but the grips get super hot when riding. For years I was buying those extended ones and soldering/splicing, until one time they were sold out everywhere and someone told me to just use the stock Polaris RMK ones. My OCD resisted, but I reluctantly tried and now it's all I use. I also like that the Polaris ones have insulation on the back, which still gives a thinner end result than using cork with an aftermarket heater. CFR Kersterke (SDG) bars with Skidoo X Deep Snow grips. Have this exact setup on both my and my wife's sleds and it works very nice.

Makes total sense. I was actually thinking how I don't need the curved ends to be heated at all. That being said, my OCD got the best of me and I found a set of CFR heaters.