gerbings glove liners

[aterry1067]

I know you're not supposed to, or they advise against it, but can you plug gerbings gloves into a synergy jacket liner? Have others done it? The plug is the same coax connector.

 

[Armando]

I don't have liners but do hook up my G3s to my Synergy jacket.

[aterry1067]

Great. Thanks for the reply.

 

[dirtrider]

Morning Terry

 

Just being able to plug in is only half of the problem. Not all brands get along on the same required current input.

 

I have been playing with the new Powerlet glove liners (on loan from a friend). Those things are really-really warm and work exceptionally good. Unfortunately they work so good I can’t seem to get them to get along with the settings I use on the Gerbings jacket liner and/or heated insoles.

 

If I run them on the same controller channel as my jacket liner I have to turn the liner heat down too far for the liner to keep my body warm.

 

If I run them on the same channel as my heated boot liners same thing I need to turn the boot liners down too far to keep my feet warm.

 

What I would need to use the Powerlet glove liners with my existing equipment would a 3 channel heat controller or find a way to add resistors to the glove liner circuit.

 

[moshe_levy]

This is true. During my winter gear test for MCN, I discovered that some materials (say, EXO2's FabRoc) took half the current of Gerbing's Microwire or W&S resistance wire to achieve the same or higher heat, in less time. In practice that meant if you're controlling an EXO glove through a Gerbing's liner on the same control circuit, the gloves would get way hot way fast and the liner wouldn't even be warm yet.

 

Mixing and matching isn't so much a problem of connection as it is of material. As DR said, the solution is to independently control each garment, or live with it to a certain extent.

 

-MKL