Elecrical Q: Grips - Eliminating Med Heat?

[maxitout77]

I am in the process of removing my cluster from the bars on my standard Rmk. I have everthing done, less the grips. The lights, reverse, thumb etc were cake.

As you can see, the standard rmk has a lowm/ed/high setting. Per the diagram, when switched to high, it connects med & low to make high.

In rewiring, I don't want a med setting, just low/high (like the Pros)
I think the solution is to run a jumper wire from the low wire, to the pin on the switch (in conjunction with the med wire) Will that work? My concern is with a jumper wire, when the grips are set to low, it we be putting juice back into the system, is that a problem?

 

[maxitout77]

Anyone?

 

[canj]

connect the low wire from your new switch to the low on your handwarmer
connect the high wire from your new switch to the low and med of your handwarmers. It should work...

 

[maxitout77]

The issuse is I am using the factory wiring. IE the cluster wires go into the main harness and the grips plug into the factory harness. I cut the cluster off and using the wires from that. There are only two wires to chose from on the main harness. Low and Med.

 

[canj]

i don't really see a way to do that without cutting the wires before the h/w connectors.

 

[mountainhorse]

Get some mating connectors for the handwarmers and run it directly... that would be really clean.



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[Reg2view]

Your pic is from the wiring diagram in the shop manual, do you have a Pro-Ride Premium diagram, too?

If not, the Pro just uses the same two circuits, Low and Med, for the handwarmers, but eliminates the Med option alone due to the two position Pro switch (sorry if the OP knows all this already, for everyone else.) BU to A at the hand warmer for low, BU/RD to B at the hand warmer for high. Both are spliced independently to each warmer, of course, but not to each other. BU - low circuit and BU/RD - medium circuit are independent, never spiced together, from switch to hand warmers. Switch controls all of it, no jumpers between circuits required.

To join the thumb and handwarmers to the same toggle, BU/RD and WH/GY (thumb) are spliced at the switch P1 for high, and BU and OG/DG (thumb) are spliced at the switch P6 for low. AC power, Y to P4 at the switch. BN, ground, from both hand warmers and thumb are then spliced together, and then to the chassis, of course.

 

[maxitout77]

So on the Pro, when you switch to high does it turn on both elements (ie low/med) or does it just turn on the medium (or high, however you wanna look at it?) Based on what you are saying Reg, it does not. So technically High on a Pro, is Med on a Std RMK?

I think the easiest way, without cutting into the factory harness, would be to run a second switch, with 12v in, and output to both low/med. In this case all elements would be live.

Im going to run it with just and independent circuit to low/med for now, see if med heat alone is enough.

 

[Reg2view]

Pro high heat to hand Warner's is just low and med at the same time, exact same as the RMK. You can see it on the schematic above,too, where high is just low and med for the RMK. There is no 'high' circuit on either sled for the hands. It's just that the Pro only has a two position switch, where the RMK has a three position switch, and med can be triggered by itself. And the Pro switch controls the thumb warmer at the same time. So they pass through the same switch, instead of being a separate low-high control. Hope that helps.

 

[sledhooligan]

From what I can see using a on-off-on switch with a three terminal back low would be low and med would be high. You couldnt use this kind of switch to power both low and med elements with a jumper becuase you would back feed and no matter which position you had selected both low and med would be on. If you want hi to have both elements hot youll need a on off on six teminal switch basically two independent switches with on toggle.
On the back the connecter will look like this
1 2
3 4
5 6
Conect your hot wire to 3 and 4 . Connect med to 1. Connect low to 2 with a jumper going to 6. Nothing will be pluged into 5 .

 

[maxitout77]

Thats exactly what I was looking for.

I think im going to add an additional switch to run the low/med together, that will be my hot only switch. Just have to remember to turn off the low - med switch.