Anyone out there have these? Thinking of installing before my move to North Dakota ...burrrr. Wondering if the 650L produces enough extra wattage (36 watts needed) to run these in stock configuration without any changes to stator or electrical system?


http://www.symtec-in...witch_p_24.html

The stator is rated for about 180 to 190 watts at high RPM's, so as long as you don't have a high output headlight bulb you should be good. Just add up the watts. I wouldn't go for the full number as you are not always revving to the max. Maybe go for 150 watts.

• Headlight 65 watts on high beam. Leaves 85 watts
  
• Tail light 10 watts (?) leaves 75 watts
  
• Ignition 20 watts (?) leaves 55 watts
  
• battery charging reserve 20 watts leaves 35 watts

I'm pretty sure that is overly conservative, so I'm sure that the heaters will be fine. Now if they are 35 watts each then it could be a problem.

The company info says 36 watts total. Looks like I should be nice and toasty warm!!

Toasty warm and a North Dakota winter, hmmm. I'd say that never happens. You are going to be needing 3600 watts :p

Kidding aside it will help when it's a balmy 25 degrees above . At 25 below it's a whole different story. Besides winter is for snowmobiles.

I've got 'em on my L and they work fine. The down side is: with the thick gloves I wear when it's really cold, I can't feel the heat through 'em.:banghead:

I know it is going to be COLD. Grew up there, left for a 32 year military career now going back to a slower pace of life. Won't be riding year round but hoping the warmers can get me out earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall. Cant wait to use the 650L like you would a saddle horse. Mount a scabbord for the old 12 guage and off pheasant hunting in October, right before the snow falls!!

I run these on my 650R.

I have them wired on/off only. With a plastic throttle tube, the throttle side will heat up way faster than the clutch side. The handlebar on the clutch side also soaks up a lot of heat (especially aluminum handlebars). To combat this when I wire them in I wire the throttle side up so it only uses the low temp setting and the clutch side for the high temp setting. This setup seems to have a good balance heat wise at least according to my hands.

From what my riding buddies and I have found is that if you have an aluminum throttle tube you can then wire them as the instructions show and have the dual temperature range.