GSA Heated seat available with handlebar control?

[richmondrider]

Hi Guys,

Early in the year I bought a Sargent heated seat for my GS, had it for about 2 hours (literally!!) before bike was stolen.

I got a 17 GSA TB to replace it (another great bike) having just done 3.5k miles round France/Italy/Switzerland and adjusted the seat high front low back etc I want to try something else other than stock.

I might go Wunderlich this time but before I hit the button, are there any seats out there which offer control from handlebar, with a bolt on fitment/controller ?

Cheers for any advice.


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[ATG]

Try CANSWITCH (www.canswitch.co.za) controller. It allows you to control all electrica accessories using the original handle bar switches. Amongst others, I control my heated seats using the same switch that controls the heated grips.

 

[richmondrider]

Great sounds perfect, will take a look - thanks ATG.


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[richmondrider]

ATG is your seat a Wunderlich? CANSwitch support asked for detail on the wattage before they would confirm if it would work. Also notice on the Wunderlich manual (which doesn't give any ref to wattage) that the heated pad must not be used continuously over an hour and 'The user may not use to sleep on the seat heater during use' odd statement!!!

 

[ATG]

Richmondrider;

I use the original BMW seats. I purchased a car heat seating pad set ( search ebay), removed the original covers and installed them over the seats foam, applied a thin, 3 mm (roughly 1/8") foam layer and replaced back the original cover.

At the high setting the front seat draws 1.6 amps while the pillion seat draws 1,3 amps for a total of 2.9 amps. As the canswitch can supply up to 5 amps per circuit I am well below the permissible load.

I doubt very much that, given their size, any motorcycle seats would draw even 5 amps so you should be safe, however you may always ask wunderlich just to be safe.

If you do purchase the Canswitch, and decide to control the heat settings using the heat grip switch to control both the grips and the seats, ask Dirk to program it in such a way that on the low setting they run at 70% power as I found that to be the best setting to give you a feeling of similar heating between the seats and the grips.

Ig you prefer to have a greater control of the seat heat settings and/or prefer to have independent control among the the grips an heat settings you may always program it to control the seat settings with a different combination of switches, including the wonderwheel.

 

[richmondrider]

Thanks ATG for the details info, that's really helpful and more confident now to have a go myself. Just need to find the money printing machine again. Cheers


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