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Im thinking of getting a heated vest or jacket and was at BMW Chester yesterday. They offer the BMW heated vest at the bargain price of £160!!
This vest is designed to plug into the BMW power socket on the dash on the R1200GS LC
Needless to say, there are a number of well known and trusted manufactures of heated clothing, who's wares are possibly better and certainly, less expensive!
My question is, am I going to have electrical issues if I buy one of these and try to run it of the BMW dash socket?
I think the BMW vest only draws 35amps and some of the other stuff uses quite lot more than that.
What do you guys use and find works well?
 
Manual for LC GSA States maximum draw for ALL AIS sockets is 5amp. So your BMW jacket drawing 35 amps would be a little too much. SWMBO wanted a heated jacket. I bought a Keis vest second hand for thirty quid and a ROWE PDM60 power module. The PDM60 is snugly fitted under rider seat and also provides power and protection to my Autocom as well as the misuses vest. She is very impressed with the warmth and the variable heat control so she is a happy bunny behind me.
 
I was actually looking at these yesterday. Appear to provide heat through pads within the fabric. Depends how effective they would be. Nice quality, with a thin layer ... Probably less cumbersome than many other options out there. The controller unit was available at £60 extra.

The other vest type options to consider are Keis & Exo. I use a Keis vest, wired direct from the battery, with a controller unit mid point from there to the jacket. Works very well. About £100 all in.
 
Thanks for that Oilcracker. I am aware of the advantages of fitting units like the PDM60 but am not brave or competent enough to start wiring work on the bike and possibly risking warranty issues, so I'm looking for heated clothing that will work in the factory socket.
 
Browny said:
I was actually looking at these yesterday. Appear to provide heat through pads within the fabric. Depends how effective they would be. Nice quality, with a thin layer ... Probably less cumbersome than many other options out there. The controller unit was available at £60 extra.

I think the £160 price includes the controller
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Just connect the jacket (via a controller) directly to the bike's battery. It'll be much neater than having a flying lead up to the cockpit area.
 
David Ryan said:
Looks good but rather bulky to wear under a bike jacket and not cheap either
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I dunno, it looked ok on him, seems to have 3 settings, I normally junk the inner lining on all my jackets and wear a fleece anyway, that way when I am away at the weekend, I have a going out jacket to wear, not cheap but you can use it away from the bike as well!
 
Gerbing kit.

I have a Gerbing jacket powered directly from the battery with a three stage temperature controller, and my missus also has the jacket plus heated gloves. The performance is excellent, and the direct battery connection simple. Recommended!
 
David Ryan said:
Im thinking of getting a heated vest or jacket and was at BMW Chester yesterday. They offer the BMW heated vest at the bargain price of £160!!
This vest is designed to plug into the BMW power socket on the dash on the R1200GS LC
Needless to say, there are a number of well known and trusted manufactures of heated clothing, who's wares are possibly better and certainly, less expensive!
My question is, am I going to have electrical issues if I buy one of these and try to run it of the BMW dash socket?
I think the BMW vest only draws 35amps and some of the other stuff uses quite lot more than that.
What do you guys use and find works well?
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it won't be drawing 35 amps.

3.5 more likely.
 
David Ryan said:
Im thinking of getting a heated vest or jacket and was at BMW Chester yesterday. They offer the BMW heated vest at the bargain price of £160!!
This vest is designed to plug into the BMW power socket on the dash on the R1200GS LC
Needless to say, there are a number of well known and trusted manufactures of heated clothing, who's wares are possibly better and certainly, less expensive!
My question is, am I going to have electrical issues if I buy one of these and try to run it of the BMW dash socket?
I think the BMW vest only draws 35amps and some of the other stuff uses quite lot more than that.
What do you guys use and find works well?
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35A x 12V = 420W you'd be toast if that current was correct!!!!

just looked it up, you mean 35W which is 35/12 = 2.9A - so no problem connecting it to the accessory socket.
 
i have a KEIS one..it has the bmw plug on it ..i just plug it straight into the accessory socket, adjust the temp with the controller and I'm fine..used it last winter and the winter before ..no issue at all ……if you connect direct to the battery, id pop an inline fuse in there if i was you just in case
 
My EXO is connected directly to the battery and fused. It doesn't have a controller, it's either connected or not, but it's faultless and toasty.
 
Nippy Normans supply Touratech, Wunderlich, Desert Fox and many other makes of accessories.
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