Heated gear on sale at Maplin

[Rogerborg]

Heated hat tip to trikeschick for the info, Maplin are "end"-of-Winter selling off electrically heated gear including fleece vest (£7), insoles (£4) and gloves (£4).

It's battery powered stuff, using 3xAA cells per unit. The vest has 2 units = 9V though, and 10 minutes of hack-and-tape had them wired in serial into my bike electrics. Surprisingly little scorching of nipples has occurred.

SOME SCORCHING OF NIPPLES HAS OCCURRED AT 14V+ WITH A THIN MERINO UNDERSHIRT.

The pads only cover the upper chest, but it's decently cosy just as a vest. Very pleased, slightly moderately at risk of catching on fire.
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[carlosthejack...]

Really stuck for which to award, nearly all would have been warranted.
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[Kai.Wilson]

Could you post up how to connect to bike wires?

[Pol Anorl]

wow bought the gloves full price like 6 months ago, used em once they suck on a bike barely warm ya hands up. warmer than normal bike gloves without the heating pads on but dosent last, heating element drains batterys big time!!

I came off my zxr wearing them on the snow... safe to say they are now fucked, not good to ride with as the layers seem to slide over eachother so twisting the throttle the first half a turn is just the glove layers sliding round, also found they are bloody huge, i have huge man hands and even with some under gloves they dont fit me.

Theyre ok for snowball fights not riding.
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[Rogerborg]

[covent.gardens]

Y'know, at that price I might just buy some.

[doggone]

super diagram, should have been labelled Vest of Scorchio though

[covent.gardens]

Did buy some.

Any recommendations for suitable waterproof plugs/connectors that I can easily add to each end of the wiring so as to be able to quickly plug in and unplug? I only have spade terminals, which would work (until they rusted anyway) but they're not ideal.

[Pete.]

Thanks Roger - getting the gloves before my knackered finger falls off. I'm working at night and suffering badly from the cold.
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[Ichy]

Any idea what wattage?

A 7809 voltage regulator and two .1uf capacitors will cost about £2 and will give a steady 9v from 12v but is only good for about 1 amp so 12 watts.

I've ordered the gloves and fleece to try out.
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[colin1]

Anything designed to run with AA batteries is going to be very low wattage, and wiring it up to the bike isnt going to change that. My mum gave me something similar a few xmass ago (gloves) and they were useless. I returned them and got a nice bodywarmer instead.
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[Ichy]