2007 Oxford Hot Grips

Originally Posted by yans_sv

thank you all for your thoughts.

i have contacted the shop i bought them from and they are going to speak with their Product Manager at Oxford and get back to me. As I said, the previous model of these grips (on/off turny knob) worked perfectly - this model definately has some form of sensing (not sure what) inside the control unit that is quite frankly OTT!

a colleague at work says his original honda heated grips switch off at idle but kick back in when revs are up again (or a higher voltage is detecting due to charging)!

ah, the whoes of being a panzy on these cold mornings!

thanks again all - keep the thoughts coming in! i will keep you posted as to the Product Managers views.

please keep us posted, as I am having exactly the same trouble, bl**dy annoying!

my prob is not enough heat ...........im in trial & error mode at the moment, i have tried bypassing the switch & they are the same, so i have borrowed the old dail type controller but cant see it helping if they were the same without a switch

so mybe the newer grips are crap??

[northwind]

Yans- I'd do what Hovis did if I was you, bypass the box. If it's not too hot for you, then just replace it with a switch. You shouldn't have to, but it's always good to simplify electrical parts in general, and there's no point in having a wee box of magic if it just causes problems...

just swapped the new box for the old one ....left ticking over on full power for 10 mins & it is the same??

what next???

as i have said mybe the newer grips are not as good?

thanks again everyone..... still waiting for Product Manager response..... but quite simply, these new grips, well, the control module, does too much thinking.... its thinking about my battery, which is very nice of them, but i dont want it to look after my battery, i can do that on my own!!!!!!!

on these cold mornings i want HEAT! stopped at traffic lights or not!!

the previous module did get very very hot just to bypass it totally..... not sure about the new ones as they have never been on long enough to actually get hot!!!!

what a dilema!

Originally Posted by yans_sv

thanks again everyone..... still waiting for Product Manager response..... but quite simply, these new grips, well, the control module, does too much thinking.... its thinking about my battery, which is very nice of them, but i dont want it to look after my battery, i can do that on my own!!!!!!!

Amen to that!

If you're worried about a straight through wire arrangement, stick a mini-potentiometer in-line as well. Variable resistor you can control, which is basically all the older box was. Except that had a switch.

My current setup goes from fusebox, to a missile style switch, to a 1M mini-pot, to the grips then back to ground. Easy peasy.

yan,

how hot do they get when they are on?

pinky,

i couldn't tell you as i haven't sat on the bike revving it long enough to find out!! i have a Carbon Can Company end can so would **** the neighbours off too much!!!!

if the heat is determind by the control module then i dont know.... if the heat is determind by the grips themselves then they get too hot to handle (when the old style control module worked)! too hot to bypass a variable switch!

all this has arised because the original ccontrol module (turny knob) would not switch on... when you press down on the knob to switch them on there was no definate click.... i might just be able to open the switch up and rectify it, it could be a srpint inside it or something?????

then i could send these new all singing all dancing ones back!!!!!!!

sometimes, old school is better than new!! not very often mind!

i think either the new grips are crap
OR
MY new grips are crap

but as not many peeps have the new ones i cant compare them

[northwind]

Hmm... Bring it over Hovi5, I want to see if they compare with mine I've never been convinced mine are right either, they never get all that hot. Think I'm going to get heated gloves, maybe.