My Anoying Heated Grips

As I now have the Oxford heated grips with the voltage regulator that do that anoynig thing of auto turning themselfs off when they think they are flattening the battery. Now sometimes it was just ocassionally when the bike was having a hard time and there was a lot of load on the system, so I could live with this. But the other night on a rather cold trip home they decided it was too much and just would not come one, so kept flashing at me saying they didn't have enought voltage. Now I'm not turning my lights off to releave the load as it was dark for starters.

So anyone got a good switched live I can plug into that should keep the voltage most times above 13 volts. At the moment if I remember correctly its connected in to the orange or yellow connector on the fuse box, be the one with a spare space on it.

I have also noticed this on the new oxford grips from time to time but this morning (prob the coldest morning I've had since the grips have been fitted) they came on fine but by the time I got to work 30 mins later they had powered off? I have left the bike off for 30 mins and then started the bike up and tried to switch the grips on again but still wont come on? I'm hoping this is as you say powering off to save load on the battery but think I'm gonna need to check all the wiring tomorrow...

[harvy]

I had this problem on my CBR125 - but i know the battery was on its way out on that... i could rev the engine or pull out the choke to get the grips on and it would work fine. as soon as i stopped at a light or roundabout etc, the revs dropped and grips turned off...

never had this problem on the SV- i guess the battery i have can hold it for longer and/or the alternator is capable of running these while the engine is idle

Well i have swapped the battery for I new on I had on the other SV and see how that goes first.

Found my problem.....the eyelet that hooks upto the pos term of the battery had sheared off so resoldered the eyelet back on and its all good to go now

Well the heated grips appear to be working better now, but I still get problems occasionally so I might have to pop to maplins and make my own controller.

I used the guide here http://www.sv650.org/docs/FittingHotGrips.pdf when I fitted mine. It shows you what connection to use, so is probably the one you're thinking of.

Not excatly the same on the curveys but its is plugged in similar, notice also that the guide is using the old style control on the grips without the voltage sensor, so will not be affected.

[Stu]

my right heated grip doesn't work. I switched the wiring round to connect the left grip where the right grip is supposed to be, but it's still the same. Don't suppose there's any fix short of replacement?

[northwind]

My control box just broke. That's the 3rd