Heated grips resistance question

[Julian Solomensky]

Hello Steven,

The suzuki guys are correct.  More resistance = less heat.  Think of heat as the volume of water in a pipe.  If you add a restrictor, you're reducing the volume of water, therefore reducing the amount of heat.

Heat is a function of current (since the the max voltage is fixed).

Ohm's law states I=V/R.  Increase R, I decreases.  

If you want max heat, wire them in parallel.  Keep in mind, in a parallel circuit, equivalent (or apparent to the battery source) resistance is closer to the lower resistance than higher.  For example, 10 ohms and 10K ohms are in parallel, equivalent resistance = 9.99 ohms.  (product over sum formula).

GOod luck


Monday, December 3, 2007, 2:46:04 PM, you wrote:

> Seems like I could just drive the grip pads in series - ie, the
> controller goes to the "positive" wires on the pad, and the pad's
> ground wire is left disconnected.  In my mind, that's more resistance
> and therefore more heat.

> I posted this question to Maximum Suzuki and a responder said "more
> resistance, less heat".

> This doesn't make sense to me, whaddy'all think?  I'm obviously no
> electronics expert or this would be trivially obvious.



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 Julian                            mailto:jsolo at solo-tek.com