Electric gloves Quit...Ideas ??

[Stig / Major Tom]

Any ideas?
Wire broken right at the battery case. Tough deal to splice back together.
Might try to isolate from the other wire and dab a bit of solder.

3rd winter with these Gerbing heated glove liners, with 3 heat temps....worked well until today!
Stig

[eamartin]

Tricky repair.  Obviously a re-solder is in order. Think about introducing a strain relief somehow to eliminate stress at the solder location, forcing the "bend" point up the wire away from the battery.  That's all I got.

[CROSSBOLT]

The box is glued/welded shut and where the broken lead is not a plug, right? Solid wire soldered to cord leads could be bent and inserted into wire cores left in box then wrapped with tape to keep them there as well as further down the box for strain relief. Lemme see if I can draw a picture and post it on this topic.  Gotta have those gloves workin' for the cold weather that is sure to follow this heat wave!

Karl

[vespbretta]

Either purchase a new battery pack - if available - or you may want to cut it open carefully with a dremel tool inside and along the grooves. Then do the resoldering job and put both halfs together again and just fix it with strong tapes. I personally wouldn´t glue it together again, because you might need to go in there once again at a later time. You never know.

Gerbing seems to be aware of that issue obviousy, because newer products/batteries do have female jacks...
Earlier versions are sort of a faulty design.

[Stig / Major Tom]

Well, Gerbing has discontinued the glove, and the battery packs are discontinued as well!
So, for now, I have the glove working again by removing both wire leads from the battery. Then soldered  solid copper wires which was pushed into the broken wire ends - then 'plugged' those solid copper wires into the broken wires of the battery.
Careful not to have any cross-shorting of the 2 wires - then electrical taped over the area and taped the wire snugly to the battery case to take the strain off of the battery/wire joint.
It works - and I'm back in business.
I simply cannot ride for more than 20 mins on cold days without these heated glove liners.

Next I am looking at cheaper alternatives - placing one of the spare 12V scooter batteries I have under the seat - and wiring directly to a current/temp controller and on to some 12 V gloves, or liners. I have no interest in wiring 12V gloves to my main LIKE battery.... not while I have 2, good, spare batteries.

From day-one, I was concerned about the life span of these small wires, because they have to be shifted repeatedly when recharging, etc.

THANKS for the suggestions guys !!



Stig

[CROSSBOLT]

'Salrite!  Glad your gloves on the mend. Powering from the system would be ideal if there is enough system to drive the gloves and the scoot.

Karl

PS: Didja see my picture on your "first ride" post?