Synergy Electric Jacket Liner w/Temperature Controller

My wife and I have been wearing these jacket liners all winter. We also have the full pant liners and we love them. It gets pretty cold here in Connecticut but unless it is below 30 and the roads may not ber safe, we ride. The jacket liner keeps you warm without a doubt. And the pants plug right into the jacket so you only need one controller. We wear long sleeve T-shirts under the jacket liner and our riding jackets over with A light pair of thermals under the pant liners and jeans over. We never had to put the temp. past low. Even Medium is too high. We sometimes put the temp on Medium if we get too cold before turning on the power, but once they warm up we turn them down to low or we will be too hot. We would definitly recommend these to anyone who wants to ride in colder temperatures all year long.

Wow... All these Controller problems. I must say, I just got my vest and a jacket for my wife. We have only used them for a short time but thus far I think they are GREAT!! I did however (after reading the reviews here) purchase an extra controller when I ordered. We are only talking about a small amount of money here. If it does only last a year, It is still well worth the money and the time.

So back in Dec 2007 I was very excited about this gear as I froze my self very good on a late Oct ride from RI to TN. The Tourmaster looked great and I really like the integrated controller as I really didn’t care for the other heated gear that required a bulky controller. I ordered my gear in early Jan 2008 and rode from FL to Daytona in Feb, it worked great going down, but the controller on the jacket failed about 150 miles from my house coming home. Tourmaster and Wingstuff both sent me new controllers for free, so I ended up with 2 controllers. I used the jacket with gloves and Warm and Safe Socks the rest of the winter in 2008 and into 2009. In Nov 2008 the second controller on my jacket failed, then in May of 2009 on an 8 day trip to Nova Scotia the third controller went out. I called Wingstuff and Tourmaster but this time I would have to buy a replacement controller.

A little digging on the internet should that the Tourmaster controllers were failing quit a bit. I found a post on ADVRider about rewiring the Synergy jacket to use a Gerbing/Heat Troller Controller. http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=302508&page=23

The simple solution is to cut the broken controller off, and tie the red, green, black and yellow wires together, the white is a pass through and should not be connected. Then get a real controller, made by Warm and Safe (which makes the First Gear Controller sold by WingStuff). Now you can have more temperature control of your heated gear, you can even go with a duel portable controller with the pants on one and jacket and gloves on the other.

This link is for a plug in adaptor to do what I described above from Warm and Safe.
http://www.warmnsafe.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=65_77&products_id=200

My wife has the jacket and pants I had to finaly get me one. We ride in the mountains a lot and who wants to be cold. I may never need the pants due to the heted seats etc on my wing. She has had hers for a year now and I say they work great.

These work great when the heat controller is working.
My controller crapped out after the 2nd day of use.
To their credit, Wing World is replacing the controller when I send my crapped out one back, but there are definite problems with the controllers. Do a Google search.
There is a permanent fix which requires using a jump wire and using the First Gear heat troller. If this next controller fails, I'll be making the modification .
If Tourmaster got this problem fixed, I'd give it 5 stars instead