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Puddle Jumper
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San Antonio, TX | On a chilly 62 degree ride today (sorry, northern riders), the better half turned on her seat heater. She started complaining it would come on, then off, then on, off, etc, etc. Being the normal worse half, I doubted her so I turned mine on as well. Sure enough, it would get hot, then cycle off, then on, etc. The kicker was that they weren't on the same sequence. Anybody else experience this?
BTW, greetings to whoever was on that Vision Tour near Sattler today! |
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Iron Butt
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Reno County, KS | Thats how they operate. They sequence off and on, just like the heated grips. |
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Visionary
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New Bohemia, VA | I found my thrill on....
Wellcome Mr. Clay in San Tony, yes, that is what they do. It is better when it is a chilly 30 degrees when riding, that is usually when I pop in the dilithium crystals. Are you really from Texas?
For the better half, you might try the low setting for a more enjoyable ride above 50 degrees
Edited by varyder 2009-12-27 4:19 PM
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Iron Butt
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Southeast Iowa | On a 62 degree day that seat will roast your chestnuts on an open fire..........no telling what it will do to your wife. |
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Puddle Jumper
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San Antonio, TX | Hey, my 'chestnuts' were quite roasted, but she was pissed it wouldn't stay on high the entire time. This is a woman that wears thermals in the texas summer! She did figure out that if you cycle the power off, then back on, it starts back up again, no waiting for the on/off cycle. I smell a mod coming.
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Visionary
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| Clay sounds like your Mrs chills as easily as mine. I live in the cool north so if I wanted the Mrs to ride along I needed to do something so here is what I'd recommend. Number one is to buy the Mrs a pair of LEE fleece lined jeans for rides on those cooler days. They cost about $30 a pair. Next pick up some tourmaster heated pant liners. They'll plug right into the Vision powerlet with the right lead and they'll allow her to get heat on demand without the seat surge. They run about $125 depending on who has them on sale. Hope this helps |
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Iron Butt
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Richmond, Virginia | Just a thought........ perhaps there is "too much padding"on said passenger, and the heat isnt getting through. Granted im not gonna say that to your wife,,,, but lets face it it takes longer to heat a big house, then a small house....... LOL
sorry, i just needed to say what all you readers were thinking ha ha ha ha ha seriously dont tell her to get a smaller butt.
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Visionary
Posts: 1350
| I would recommend leather pants. I think she would find the leather will hold the heat during the off cycle. You can buy some nice leather overpants at Amazon for around $75. When I ride in the cold with my leather snowmobile bibs on I never notice the cycles. Just a thought. |
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Tourer
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| 62 degrees, I am riding with a long sleeve t-shirt and jeans. |
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Tourer
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Centennial, CO | I am unclear on something here...Mine only surge when on HIGH. When on LOW they do not surge, only come on and stay on. |
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Tourer
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| He mentioned in his second post that he was using high. |
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Iron Butt
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Rockford, IL | ClayinSA - 2009-12-27 3:28 PM Hey, my 'chestnuts' were quite roasted, but she was pissed it wouldn't stay on high the entire time. This is a woman that wears thermals in the texas summer! She did figure out that if you cycle the power off, then back on, it starts back up again, no waiting for the on/off cycle. I smell a mod coming. clay Hmmm....I'm not sure but I don't think I'd be jumping into modding this feature. Would tend to think its designed to cycle so that the electrical system isn't overloaded. Trying to "fool" the engineering by switching it on/off/on and such could possibly lead to more problems than a hot tush. Might be smelling more than a mod if ya know what I'm saying. I might be wrong here. I'm just assuming this on my fairly basic electrical knowledge. Hopefully someone with more electrical guruness will chime in and agree or disagree with me. |
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Cruiser
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Cold Lake Alberta Canada | 62! shorts and sun screen! But I'm Canadian EH! |
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Tourer
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Tacoma, WA | Man, I don't even button my top button until it is below zero.....-----Metalguy |
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Visionary
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| The high setting is designed to cycle so she doesn't FRY herself. I sure wouldn't eliminate the cycle feature (although you could). Little story here, lol: A number of years back I had the need to sit on a heating pad (not telling, lol). Anyhow the heat pad unknown to me had gotten old and wasn't cycling as it is suppose to. I ended up looking like my skin had marbled due to all the broken blood vessels on the backs of my legs from the heat. Took months to heal. |
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Puddle Jumper
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San Antonio, TX | thanks for all the feedback. I hadn't thought about the overloading issue, just figured that it should be able to operate at a the max for a sustainable time as i wouldn't think an electrical element would get tired. I need to do more research. also, didn't think about the 'cooking' capability. definitely don't want to have to listen how the seat fried her a$$ for the rest of my life.
VaParadox, sorry, i'm the gravitationally challenged one in this duo...she is 110lbs soaking wet, worse she runs marathons. I lift weights, 12oz at a time! |
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