I should probably start a new thread for this but I'm in a hijacking kind of mood. >
I have the OEM heated grips and finally needed to use them on a long ride through the mountains yesterday. I had turned them on before only to verify that they worked. Well, as several people have complained on this board and others, the heat is very uneven between the left and right grips. In my case the difference was huge. Right almost too hot to handle, and left kicking out hardly any heat at all.
After thinking and reading about the problem it makes sense. The right grip has a plastic throttle tube under it to insulate it from the steel handlebar and the grip material is thinner than the left to compensate for the thickness of the throttle tube. The left grip is mounted directly to the handlebar, and the grip material is much thicker than the right. So if the grips aren't designed to compensate for these differences the result will be much more heat delivered to the right hand than the left hand, even if the two grips are drawing the same amount of current.
Questions:
1. For those using non-OEM heated grips or heating elements, don't you all have this uneven heating problem to some degree?
2. Has anyone successfully solved this problem? If yes, what did you do? The obvious solution is to add resistors to the circuit to reduce current to the right grip, but I'd like to hear the details of a successful mod.
Thanks.