Heat-Troller™ Specs

The Heat-troller is a DC (direct current), power controller designed for heated clothing, gloves, pants and other heated products that are powered by a battery. You can think of the Heat-troller as a dimmer switch for your heated products. It has a positive off and provides a full range of heat that is constant at any setting, just as a light dimmer switch gives you constant light at different levels.

The Heat-troller is a pulse-width modulated controller with a 1 second cycle time. That means that over a 1 second period, the power is turned on from about 5% to 100% of the time, adjustable with the knob on the Heat-toller. When the power is turned on, full power is applied to the load. In the example given, if the heated grip are 16 Watts each and the Heat-troller is adjusted to 50%, the grips will get 16 Watts for half a second, then no power for half a second, giving an average of 8 Watts of power. The Heat-troller is more efficient than a rheostat because it makes very little wasted heat when turned on. For two 16 Watt grips, the Heat-troller makes less than 0.1 Watts of heat at 50%. A rheostat would make about 16 Watts of wasted heat at the same 50% setting.

The Single Heat-troller is 1.5 in x 2.25 in x .85 in or 38 mm x 57 mm x 21.5 mm in size and the case actually tapers so that it fits easily into the hand. It is small enough to Velcro on to clothing, to a tank bag, to a wheel chair and yet is not so small that it becomes hard to handle while wearing gloves or if physically challenged. The Heat-troller™ comes either in a Portable model or a Permanent model designed to mount out of sight with only the switch and L.E.D. showing. This not only works well for mounting in everything from motorcycles to toll booths but can be used to replace the two position switches for snow mobile hand grips and heated car seats.

The efficiency of the design allows over 98% of the power from your battery to reach your heated clothing. As a matter of fact, we tested the simple on/off switches designed by other companies and in one case found it to lose 25% of the power from the battery by the time the current reached the vest. Instructions for Testing Controller and Switches

With some controllers you can't turn it all the way off. When you turn the Heat-troller on or off you can feel and hear the positive snap of the switch. Because the Heat-troller is a solid state device, the switch controls the electronics not the power. This allows for the switch to have a true OFF position. But even if the Heat-troller is left turned on and plugged into a power source but unplugged from the heated product , the most power it will draw is just the power to flash the LED. Some people like the Dual Heat-troller for controlling different peices of clothing on the same person. Such as but not only, liner and gloves or liner and pants. It is not designed to run clothing on two people and we do not recommend it used for controlling heated handgrips. If you want to control clothing and heated handgrips then purchase a Single Mounted Heat-troller and a Heated Handgrip Heat-troller. We believe so much in this solution that we will discount the price $10 to make the price equal to a Dual Mounted Heat-troller.

Since we designed the coax power connectors that now most people have copied, our Heat-trollers are compatible with most of the heated clothing on the market.

Sizes:

Single Heat-troller Size - 1.5 in x 2.25 in x .85 in or 38 mm x 57 mm x 21.5 mm Output: One Coax Connectors - Wire Length is 18 inches

Dual Heat-troller Size - 1 in x 2 in x 3 in or 25 mm x 50 mm x 75 mm Output: Two Coax Connectors - Wire Length is 18 inches