Controlling the Heat

Just purchased a Gerbing Single Temperature Controller for my Gerbing electric gloves.  After a burn on my hand from direct power it was a necessary change.  The reason was simple — in past years I wore the gloves without any wind protection.  In cold weather the wind would render the gloves ineffective at below freezing temperatures so burns seemed an impossibility to me.  Looking back a a post from 2008 — 18º F and Gerbing Electric Gloves —  it seems I need to make a modification to Lesson One:

LESSON ONE: The gloves aren’t going to burn you. (They can burn if your hands are shielded from the wind) I don’t know where someone would get the idea that you could burn yourself with these gloves. At 32° F the elements are supposed to heat to 130° F. And the elements are insulated from directed contact with skin so no burning is going to take place. Using them at 18 ° at 50 MPH you can barely tell they are heating. At sub-freezing temperatures I don’t want a thermostat, I want full power. 

With the Tucano Urbano mitts shielding the wind the gloves get hot and will burn.  In that case I don’t always want full power.  I do want the controller.  Riding today at 35F I had them set to about 1/4 power and my hands were toasty.  It’s late in the winter riding season so I don’t know how much experimenting with low temperatures I’ll have but I’m ready for next winter.

Now on to some Vespa maintenance — oil and filter change to start.