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Are heated Jacket liners Polarity specific?
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Have a peek here- https://www.motorcyclegear.com/neml_images/heated_gear/synergy_owners_manual.pdf
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pglaves
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If all that is involved is a simple on-off switch and the heating element wires then I don't think it matters which way the electrons flow. But I am fairly certain that any electronic controller - certainly the pulse-width controllers like used by Gerbing and Warm and Safe - are polarity dependent.
pauls1150
MOA #24991, south of Los Angeles
I agree with Paul G - Being a solid-state device, the controller absolutely would be polarity-specific (and may be destroyed by hooking it up backwards, dunno fer sure, but likely); but as far as I have ever seen, the heating elements are just resistive wire, so that doesn't (shouldn't...) matter.
