Yamaha Heated Grip

[MRFJR]

As some of you know, I got lucky and got a set of Yamaha heated grips at the EOM this past weekend. I'm planning on installing them this week sometime. Could someone whom has installed these grips themself drop a line and give me a few pointers? I think I understand that the + side plugs in the brake reservoir side via jumper but I'm not sure where the - side connects to-- any help would be appreciated.

Mike

04 FJR

 

[shuswaper]

hey mr., got the yammi heaters last year and installed them myself...they work great! Unfortunately, the instruction book does not...at least not in terms of the negative side. However, just hook the - to the battery...there is no better ground than that for this device. There should have been supplied with your unit, a wire with a bullet type connector at one end and a round, ground at the other. You hook the bullet end to the negative labeled harness and the other goes to the battery post...this leaves one unused wire on the harness (it`s redundant). I hope this helps and good luck... :clap:

 

[Bubba]

I installed mine weekend before last. I looked forever for the "other" negative connection specified in the instructions -- a connector between the left side switch wires and the main harness -- and never did find it. Somebody told me it's under the tank on the right side of the steering head. But connecting the negative side to the negative terminal on the battery has worked fine -- I've used the grip heaters about a half-dozen times with no problem.

When I mounted the grip heater negative terminal, I held the main (harness) ground wire in contact with the battery terminal to keep power to the clock -- I'm not sure if that was necessary or not but it was pretty easy to do.

As you said, the positive end of the harness hooks between the brown wire running to the right side handlebar switch housing and the connector on the housing. On my bike, that's the more forward of the two connectors on the switch housing.

I've found a really nice psychological effect from the heated grips on cold, gray northwest days. Comfy!

 

[MRFJR]

Thanks guys! I got the grips installed last night -- used the suggestion of the negative side of the battery to get it connected (I did the same thing as you did Shuswaper- held the negative wire on the battery while attaching the ground lead, good idea) -- what took the most time was wrapping the harness with tape and securing everything. I did, however, have to spend a little time with a die grinder working on my vista cruise making it bigger to enable the hilt on the right grip to clear without binding, no problem though. The grips work great, now just got to add some cool weather to check them out! Once again - thanks for the suggestions - I think I'm going to really enjoy them.

Mike

 

[Mogan]

I got the OEM grip heaters with the bike when new. After 6 months I ripped them out and replaced them with aftermarket units, BMW grips and wired it to heat-trollers. I hated the big ugly controller and the feel of the stock grips.

 

[ian]

I installed a remote Heat Troller to run the OEM grips. No sweat after I found out the grips are wired in series. Nice to get rid of that ugly OEM controller. Ian, Iowa