Anyone know of a good low watt heated grip? Pretty sure I need below 36watts most are 40 from what I am finding
low watt heated grips
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on what bike?
Mine are 0 watts.
Cost $25 from Home Depot.
Cost $25 from Home Depot.
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2018 kx 450
what is stator output? wondering how ewe determined 36 works and 40 don't?
so from what I understand
baja designs use to sell a squadrant pro that was 40 watts that they said would fit a kx but they ran into some issues with a bog from the fuel pump not getting enough power. from what I have read on forums its 36watt. unless someone else can tell me different. Id love to know exact available output but haven't got any credible sources for that.
Ya I have seen the Raze kits out there. This bike is going to be in some bike shows and I'm not trying to bash your set up because it looks decent and probably works great but I need something super clean.
Mine are 0 watts.
Cost $25 from Home Depot.
Trail tech makes one for a kx?
From what I’ve read it’s an 80 W stator. 36 watt available to use for accessories.
Maybe just get a normal set and don't wire up the high side. Just run them on low. You could do this with the heat demon ones since they have 2 circuits through the heater, not one of those cheeseball ones with the giant ceramic resistor. I would imagine that anything that has a low enough power requirement won't put out any more heat than the heat demon on low anyways.
heat demon on low circuit is 30 watts use Red and blue wires only,
That’s the back up plan. I don’t know if that will put out enough heat. I don’t know if I found a heated grip kit that did run 30 watts with high low would put out more heat then the heat demon kit on low. I heard of someone sanding down handlebar and putting a thin layer of cork form the craft store between the bar and heat element to help keep the heat off the bar and onto the grip. They used a thin renthal trials grip.
Good call for those that don't have sleds . When they introduced aluminum bars to the sleds the hand warmers that once worked no longer could put out the heat because of the aluminum . Some manufactures had a solution and the corking of the heated grip was one of them .
Making it work on the twist will take some extra attention .
Might not hurt to add a small Li battery with a 2 or 3 Ah reserve somewhere to act as a capacitor in the circuit, it will help with starting if everything is turned on. If you are tight on power which you will be it buys you some run time with accessories like grips or lights. With the race bikes none of the kicker bikes make enough power really to run everything, if you have the button you are golden. The coolant bars are the action for the grips then all you need is lights which can be under 20 watts for a basic get you out of the bush light vs a night riding setup. My YZ will start with the light turned on.
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Ya aluminum tube sanded and a supersoft thin grip might make its way on if I try real hard. I have been looking at adding a battery but with all the stuff we have going on with this bike we are very limited on space. plus I am not 100% confident in doing the battery myself. Might want some direction from someone with experience doing this before I start hacking into a harness.
Could you wire them for Hi off the power of a yz450 with no other draws, or should they always be wired Lo? I messed up on mine and wired them Lo. Was going to fix it but if that’s ill advised I’ll leave as is
I have the Bike Master heated grips with 5 different settings. When it is on 5, it gets really hot and I have AL handlebars. I was wondering, since someone had mentioned it, if the AL would indeed "soak" up all the heat and now I know that it will not, the grips get so hot that I had to turn down the setting to 3 or 4 as 5 is super hot.
I just don't know if they are low wattage.
I just don't know if they are low wattage.
how well does that work?
