ZnsaneRyder
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I want to make a heated bicycle jacket. Are you folks tired of riding in the cold and not staying out long, because it's too cold to be bearable to get anything done?
Do any of you folks already have a heated jacket? If so, tell us more about it and how well it works.
I was looking around online and see there are several styles of heated jackets for sports players and motorcyclists. Most use a Lithium battery and carbon-fiber for the heat elements, and vary between 65-200 watts.
Since I am making my own, and don't know where to get conductive carbon-fiber, I'm planning on using thin copper coil wire (thin #30AWG) and making several coils in the front, and upper arms, and I'll run it from my 12V NiCd bicycle battery, and also have 12V NiCd's inside the jacket so when the batteries get low, the warm batteries themselves will also provide some heat.
Another idea is to scrap a heated blanket and use the heat-elements.
I want to be able to ride the bicycle for hours to find a job or go out of town, but the cold has kept me grounded locally, and I really want to ride FAR, as I intended to use the bicycle for, and handling the cold would be the key thing to making it happen.
Do any of you folks already have a heated jacket? If so, tell us more about it and how well it works.
I was looking around online and see there are several styles of heated jackets for sports players and motorcyclists. Most use a Lithium battery and carbon-fiber for the heat elements, and vary between 65-200 watts.
Since I am making my own, and don't know where to get conductive carbon-fiber, I'm planning on using thin copper coil wire (thin #30AWG) and making several coils in the front, and upper arms, and I'll run it from my 12V NiCd bicycle battery, and also have 12V NiCd's inside the jacket so when the batteries get low, the warm batteries themselves will also provide some heat.
Another idea is to scrap a heated blanket and use the heat-elements.
I want to be able to ride the bicycle for hours to find a job or go out of town, but the cold has kept me grounded locally, and I really want to ride FAR, as I intended to use the bicycle for, and handling the cold would be the key thing to making it happen.