stevepsd said:Nope. Not defective. Except the design.
Just go feel your jacket, you can tell where the heating pads are (and are not). For example the heating pads on on the top of the jacket sleeves, but none on the bottom (top/bottom defined as on your bike holding the bars). Same for shoulders. Same for your kidneys.
Read about others experiences here: http://advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=649013
Hopefully they changed the design when they brought back the manufacturing to the US from China this year. When I spoke with Gerbings about mine, they basically said 'tough, that's the way it is. ' No where near as good as their earlier jackets.
I went with Warm-n-Safe, gen 4, heating coverage everywhere. Happy. Their wireless controller is FANTASTIC as well. Only have to deal with one wire connection to the bike. Nice. I wonder how long it will be till Gerbings copies this as well.....
I really gotta agree with others.... Ive had my Gerbings Microwire jacket for 2 years. Ive never felt cold spots and certainly havnt noticed hot spots. It heats from the neck collar all the way around. Very much how it might feel to take a jacket out of the dryer put it on. Toasty. Who knows what was going on with the one you had, but I really cant identify with your description of the jacket. I have always felt Gerbings was top-of-the-line and always find that my gear out lasts friends who go with First Gear, WnS or others... Seems like the controller designs always fail which of course can also be attributed to poor fuse attention... Not all my friends read instructions
I have their gloves and with the dual hard-mount controllers mounted to my S10 its a perfect setup. They also have LIFETIME guarantee as opposed to the 1 year limited offered by WnS. That gives me a little piece of mine considering the cost of the gear.