Heated grips not working
 

My oxford heated grips don't heat :o I can only think that the controller (the old analogue dial) has given up; the red L.E.D still comes on, indicating that there is power getting to it from the battery, but the grips dont get warm. I've checked the connections and given them a clean with electrical contact cleaner, but nothing.

So, what could I use as a suitable new switch, something with a variable resistor in it?

Matt

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Yes they will be a variable resisor controling the current, hence the heat. Should be simple enough to take out and replace.

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It is indeed that simple, however, there's half a tonne of epoxy resin inside the damn thing!!

Option 1: Acidic epoxy solution to clean the epoxy off, diagnose & replace the potentiometer. Reseal with epoxy.

Option 2: Visit Maplin, get a small plastic box, a potentiometer, a 12v LED, a little wire, and solder yourself a new controller.

Option 3: Ebay for a cheap controller. Or talk to Hovis, he's likely to have a spare controller kicking around from last year.

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Cheers baph, I'll ask hovis, but I'll probably end up making a new, water-tight, smaller controller.

Be prepared for numpty electronics questions :D

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You can test the grips by unplugging the controller and then plugging one of them direct into the control power supply. You get the full 12v to the grip and it should heat up lovely.
My analogue one failed and I had it replaced with the digital one and its rubbish. So at some point I'm going to Maplin to make my own.

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how did you find out they weren't working - was it frosty this morning?

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sorry.................. stupidly i left it on the bike

been looking on eblah, and the whole set up goes for about £35

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cold wind down here on the coast, then it rained....

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And his fanny hurt;)

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My left hand heated grip has given up the ghost. Last time I just got a new controller and evrything was fine and dandy for a year or so. Always the same bloody side.

I have the Oxford analogue one also. Why is the new digi one so poor compared to the old one?

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It seems to not heat the controllers up as much, plus the cut out voltage drop sensor seems to do its own thing. Even on a full charged bike I'm lucky if I can get them to say on more then 2 minutes.

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There is another option. Save your money and hassle and just fit a set of Daytona heated grips, Oxford ones are rubbish

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Yea, but now the grips are on the bars and glued in place, they wont be as easy to get off as your normal every day OEM grip...

Oxford said a new digital controller is £23 or there abouts. Well, sod that!

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I'll make you one for £20 +P&P. :D

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Ummmm

na

but for your own "feel good" vibes, you can tell me how i should build mine :D

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Sharp knife if they are scrap, as easy as taking any other grip off.

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I'll test them and find out if they are duff first, if not I'm not gonna take them off. Cost more money to buy a whole new set rather than just build a new controller

But then

I start my PhD soon, and get some money

hmm

:D

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I just replaced mine with a toggle switch, they were always full power or off anyway.