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FYI - Walmart has heated seat pads on sale ( CDN $9.93 )

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    They make very cheap and effective heated vest... as I've mentioned before a vest in many regards is the best peice of heated gear you will own - keeping your core warm means that warm blood will keep pumping to your fingers and toes. This means they won't get cold as fast. [ When you get cold fingers and toes it's often more likely that the blood flow has been restricted to them to maintain core tempature, not that they are getting more wind blast than normal].

    Anyhow - if you are interested - a little toggle switch and hook it up to the battery (I've got a flashy system from a member of a different board donated to me...).

    To create the vest - carefully cut along the middle bend of the L shaped seat heater a neck slit. Put it over your head, and put two stretchy bits of fabric to hold what was the top and the bottom edges next to your kidneys. Voila - a cheap vest.

    Cheers,
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    Here is a link to Ron's vest -

    http://forums.ninja250.org/viewtopic.ph ... eated+vest

    He is very graciously giving me one of his heater controllers... but you don't really need one, you can get away with just an on/off switch and probably a two-prong plug ( for disconnecting it all form the bike when you actually want to stop riding. )
     
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    What does the 'heater controller' do? Where would I buy it and what's it called?

    Can you run it on a stock bike with stock power demand?
     
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    I'm not sure - I'll find out! :) I think so - I've had no problems in stock form. I've seen some people with some gear on the xj so this should be fine - particularily where it won't be on all the time and would tend to be on when the bike is making some good power.

    What my controller does is variable voltage and switching I guess. I haven't seen this one yet but the guy who built it is into electronics and has made some gear for Iron Butt riders.

    It is 34 watts... so that's a pretty good chunk of power. I'd guess I'll be fine when I'm not in the city. On the highway or on the twisties it should be fine. If I find it getting dim then I'll have to turn it down or off.

    You don't need the controller as it comes with an on/off switch... you can take the cable right to the battery. Some sort of connector would be good other wise getting off the bike would be a pain ;)
     
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