Gerbing Jackets, Gloves and Trousers

[happy grandad]

I have been given a Gerbing jacket and trousers. I already had the gloves.

I am not very good at the technical side of things.

Will I be able to connect them together and use an accessory socket?

Should I use both accessory sockets and have the trousers connected to one and the gloves and jacket connected to the other.

Or should I connect them directly to the battery?

If I connect them to the accessory plug, which is the positive - the one in the centre or the one in the outside.

Thanks

 

[motozen]

Gerbings

The jacket and the trousers have an SAE (flat male/female) plugs. The trousers attach to the one of the 2 plugs on the jacket. The second unused SAE plug is for you to attach to your accessory socket using a BMW type male plug. You may wish to add an inline Heatroller (a thermostat with a dial) to turn down the heat when you got too hot. The gloves plug into the 2 outlets at the edge of your sleeves. (If you had heated socks, they would plug into the 2 outlets at the bottom of your trousers).

In other words, there should only be one lead coming out of the suit and it plugs into the accessory socket. If you have any more questions, email me directly at the address below. I have the whole set, including socks and it allows me to ride in near freezing temps for hours.

 

[chippelmike]

Gerbing clothes

As the previous message says the garments all link together except that my garments have round not square plugs, I would recomend that you wire directly to the battery as this leaves you with the acc. socket free should you ever want it also you cannot leave clothing conneted when off the bike so no discharge probs. I would definatly recomend the heat controller unless you wish to become lightly poached, they do get very hot and have no switch so whilst you can unplug on the move you have to stop to reconnect as you cool down! This kit beats heated grips hands down Enjoy..........Mike.

 

[happy grandad]

I have been away for the weekend camping. I connected all the items together and plugged into one accessory socket.

They did not work.

I unplugged the gloves and connected them to another accessory socket. There was still no heat coming through.

I then unplugged the trousers and the socks from the jacket without turning off the engine - still no heat.

It was only when I turned off the engine and allowed the computer on the bike to 're-boot' that the heating in the gloves and jacket commenced.

I then joined the gloves to the jacket and used one accessory socket - the heat continued

I plugged in the trousers and socks to the jacket to see if it would work and the heat stopped coming through.

It seems therefore that both accessory sockets are on the same loop and will only allow so much power to be used.

I reckon that I must have to connect directly to the battery for everything to work. As it is nearly spring I think I will leave it till the autumm

 

[motozen]

Now that I read your posting, I think the accessory socket is rated at 5 amps and since there is no fuse on the 12GS, the Can bus turns it off if it exceeds the programmed load.. On my RT it was fused at 15 amps, so it was no problem, because the total load with gloves, socks, trousers and jacket was about 13 amps.

What you need to do is to take a lead directly from the batter. I don't know if they have those in the UK, but over here you can get an SAE lead to the battery, that has an inline fuse. For convenience, I have attached a table lamp in line switch to the power lead, just so I can turn the heat off if I so choose, or you can achieve the same result if you have a heat controller.