Heated gloves regulator tied to battery

[Tfrank59]

Well I picked up some heated gloves and hooked up the pigtail to my battery, which plugs into the regulator, whose wires go out my sleeves and plug-in to the gloves.  My question is, if you know, will the thing drain my battery just being hooked up directly to the battery terminals? And two, any chance of me getting zapped or what if it rains? They are nice quality gloves and have all good connectors with insulation (the pigtail is fused) and everything looks to be waterproof.

[Brewer]

Unlikely to zap you in the rain but the regulator should have a switch or dial, if you leave it on, it will drain the battery (personal experience)
Wire in a relay to the accessory wires under the right side cover to automatically turn on and off with the bike.

[Tfrank59]

Yeah, the regulator has an off button, but it's not actually left on the bike – only the pigtail coming off the battery.

[Bighead]

No a pigtail will not drain your battery. A lot of chargers come with a pigtail that you leave on there with no problems.

[Tfrank59]

Got it thanks   Oh yeah, my other bike has a pigtail on there for the battery tender, and it doesn't drain it.

[Jess from VA]

This reminded me of an old James Thurber story (1936), about his grandmother and electricity.

The telephone she was comparatively at peace with, except, of course, during storms, when for some reason or other she always took the receiver off the hook and let it hang. She came naturally by her confused and groundless fears, for her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up she would hastily and fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but a dangerous leakage. Nothing could ever clear this up for her.

[hubcapsc]

I like the idea of stuff only being hot when the key is on, but then I might
be a lot like James Thurber's Grandmother...

-Mike

[Bighead]

I like the idea of stuff only being hot when the key is on, but then I might
be a lot like James Thurber's Grandmother...

-Mike

True but there would have to be something making contact with both sides of the pigtail for it to drain the battery but it would probably heat up and catch fire before the battery went dead

[Tfrank59]

I like the idea of stuff only being hot when the key is on, but then I might
be a lot like James Thurber's Grandmother...

-Mike

Well stuff is hot as long as there's a battery connected up with a charge, so the two big cables coming off of it are hot, though of course electricity isn't flowing until circuits are closed with key on.

[hubcapsc]

I like the idea of stuff only being hot when the key is on, but then I might
be a lot like James Thurber's Grandmother...

-Mike

Well stuff is hot as long as there's a battery connected up with a charge, so the two big cables coming off of it are hot, though of course electricity isn't flowing until circuits are closed with key on.

I wear this knobby thing on my pocket, I guess it does what  your regulator does?



The connector I plug my heated gear into isn't hot until the key is on because of a
relay I put in the circuit...

-Mike

[Tfrank59]

I like the idea of stuff only being hot when the key is on, but then I might
be a lot like James Thurber's Grandmother...

-Mike

True but there would have to be something making contact with both sides of the pigtail for it to drain the battery but it would probably heat up and catch fire before the battery went dead

Ahh you're scaring me with talk of fire and stuff – the pigtail is fused by the way.

[Brewer]

Yeah, the regulator has an off button, but it's not actually left on the bike – only the pigtail coming off the battery.

All good, I thought the regulator would stay, that is how mine is set up and in the off position it is fine.

[Bighead]

I like the idea of stuff only being hot when the key is on, but then I might
be a lot like James Thurber's Grandmother...

-Mike

True but there would have to be something making contact with both sides of the pigtail for it to drain the battery but it would probably heat up and catch fire before the battery went dead

Ahh you're scaring me with talk of fire and stuff – the pigtail is fused by the way.

Not going to happen but IF the key Word IF  both sides of the pigtail plug were in contact with metal (think of laying a piece of wire from one battery post to the other that wire would be carrying voltage and get hot but like I said not gonna happen) it could happen but if you look at the pigtail the plug connections should be covered.