RSI handle bar grip heater issue

snoprokidf6

snoprokidf6

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anyone install these on a viper, maybe the srx has a similar layout, i connected the grips to rsi specs, or how i interpreted them and still no heat. can someone help me out with some step by step directions, the rsi directions are very vague
 
Which way to you have them connected? Series or parallel? In series you will get less heat than parallel.

Each grip has a power in and ground

Parallel:Go from the lead connector (power) from the sled to both power inputs on the left and right sides of the grips and both grounds from the grips to the other connector (ground) on the sled.Think of it like a tree.Trunk = lead connector from sled and to two branches = wires from the grips.

Series: Go from one lead connector on the sled to one wire on the left grip. From the second wire on the left grip go to one wire on the right grip. From the last wire on right grip go back to the lead connector on the sled.

Hope this helps
 
stein700sx, i appreciate you taking the time to explain that to me but it sounded a bit like chinese haha. My universal RSI elements have 3 wires on them, one blue, one red and one white, i'm assuming the red is hot, blue is negative and white is the ground. rsi says to connect blue and white together, then connect to the main black yamaha wire. it says that word for word, i'm assuming connect the blue and white together and the red to the black. however there is a red/yellow wire (hot) that runs to my stock grips should i connect both red rsi wires to this hot red/yellow wire? or connect the red rsi wires to stock black yamaha wire and leave the blue and white wires together?
 
i do believe yamaha has the stock grips in series, the red/yellow wire goes to the left grip, a separate wire runs to the right grip, then from the right back to a black wire on the sled
 
With three wires then that means one is high,one is low and one is ground.
If you have an ohm meter you can test to see what is what or you can "redneck" it by using a 12 battery and try diff combo's to see what wires are what. If they say to tie the blue and white together to me that would mean they are the hot leads (+) and the red is negative. If thats the case then the hot lead from the sled goes to both blue/white leads on the grips and the reds go to the other lead (-). This would be hooked in parallel and should be very hot in theory
 
When I bought a set of the RSI heaters, the directions were not correct. Called for the ground and one of the hots to be fired together. Not sure if they have updated that little issue or not, but if you look at the layout of them on the heater, one wire has both fields connected to it (ground) and the other two wires each have a filed on them (high and low.)
 
thanks for the help guys, got them all wired up and working, had to run the white and blue to the lead on the sled, and the red was the ground, run that to the black on the sled, work alright, not extremely warm but yammi's are not known for their extremely warm bars haha
 
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