Well, I'm shocked.

The heated visor actually works.

I only tried to make one because I was bored with sitting at home
playing on the Wii and watching tv so I was shocked to find I'd
actually managed to end up with a fully functioning heated visor.

I've got a heated area that when flattened out measures about 60mm x
250mm and when switched on de-mists the visor within seconds. I can
put the crash helmet on and exhale as hard as I can directly against
the visor and instead of the normal loss of vision it clears as
quickly as I can fog it up.

The next test will be to soak it, put it in the freezer to ice up
then see how quickly it clears, I reckon it'll be under a minute from
fully frozen and if it can do that then there's no way the inside will
ice up when riding.

Total cost was about £18 and that was for enough wire to do about 4
visors, one waterproof connector that fits just below the helmet and
one male accessory plug so it can be used on any bike with an
accessory socket. If I wanted to go pikey and use cable and fittings I
already had in the garage it'd be about £2 per visor for the resistive
wire.

I'll only fit it when my normal visor starts to ice up so it shouldn't
end up being damaged by constant use and being thrown around in a tent
and with a bit of luck it'll last the 10 days I need from it.

Thanks to all for the advise and I'm sorry I can't post pictures of a
smoking Shoei. Yet...

 

Surely, if it's grounding itself through you, it's not *really* working

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If when you got your XR1000, you didn't really know what pinlock was, or
how to use it, and just got on with life with the pinlock visor in a
draw... how would you clean your visor and attach the pinlock?
I'm getting a little bit misty, last couple of days

 

Neat. Any idea how much current it draws?

 

Difficult to compare in this country though as we dont tend to ride
for hours at -15C.

Steve

 

Has your visor got any holes/pegs in it for the pinlock?

If not you need to get the template thingy (often comes with a new
pinlock IIRC) and drill a couple of holes in the visor for the pegs.
Then just clean the visor with some lens cleaner or whatever, bend the
visor straight and pop the pinlock in.

 

I've not checked it accurately but I think it's about 1.6 Amps. It's
certainly under 2.

 

and is the wire crisscrossing the FOV

 

Nice one! Chance of any photos?

IIRC in Iceland snowmobile riders use them to stop their breath icing
up the inside of their visors so maybe there is a commercially
available one out there.

 

Ok, ICBW and CBA to google, but I wouldn't have thought windchill would
come into play. IWHT that's all to do with evaporation from the body and
all that?

 

Yeh, mine does have the pegs, but I couldn't fathom the instructions.
I was pretty sure that it went on the inside of the visor for example,
but not entirely sure... so it went in the draw. I'll have to have a
another look see at it and try and be a bit less dumb about it.

 

Did it win anything?

 

Remove the visor from the helmet.
Remove any protective plastic from the pinlok insert.
Figure out which way up it goes, it should be obvious when put up
against the inside of the visor. The rubber strip side of the insert
goes against the visor.
Bend the visor flat and push one side of the pinlok under the peg on
one side, then the other, and it'll just sort of snap into place
against the visor.
Refit to helmet.

Periodically remove the pinlok and wash with warm soapy water and
leave to drip dry.

 

I think it's a bit colder where I intend to field test this one.

This year it reached the dizzy heights of -3c on the warmest day and
-20c on the coldest day and that was daytime temperatures.

I've got a slight suspicion it might be a bit colder when the sun's
gone down and we're only going to be getting 3 - 4 hours of 'sunshine'
per day.

I doubt if I'll be the only one sorting out a heated visor before we
go but really hard bastards will just be using goggles and an open
faced helmet.

 

I've gone for 25 vertical wires with 10mm gaps between them and the
vertical wires inside, horizontal outside.

You don't notice they're there when the helmet's on but one thing I
did notice was that after putting a drop of superglue in every hole
the fumes were a bit nasty when it was heating up. That won't be a
problem once it's cured properly but it would need the visor slightly
open if I was going straight out for a test run without curing it
first.

 

I'll get Adie to stick some on the bonwick.me site and post a link to
them eventually.

I got the idea from a BMW site where a Norwegian rider had posted
instructions on how to do it so the testing was done for me and yes,
snowmobile riders do use them but they're only available for a small
number of crash helmets.

 

Exactly. Inamimate objects can't feel windchill.

 

I was expecting a crosspost there.

 

did they invent carb icing too?

 

heh. I guess if you rode fast enough you could cause ice to form in your
wake.