When we design a heated grip for a snowmobile or a thermal management system for a marine vessel, we're not designing for a climate-controlled office. We're designing for the real world—where temperatures swing 150°F in a single season, where salt spray corrodes everything it touches, and where constant vibration tests every connection and bond.
Over three decades of designing for these conditions, we've learned lessons that no textbook can teach.
Powersports vehicles generate severe vibration profiles. A snowmobile traversing rough terrain produces vibration frequencies and amplitudes that would surprise most engineers. Traditional solder joints, rigid connections, and brittle materials simply cannot survive these conditions long-term.
Our approach uses flexible interconnects, strain-relieved terminations, and fatigue-resistant materials throughout. Every design undergoes accelerated vibration testing that simulates years of real-world use in a matter of weeks.
Water intrusion is the number one failure mode we design against. Whether it's a heated grip exposed to freezing rain or a marine heating element surrounded by salt air, moisture will find every weakness in a design.
We use hermetically sealed connections, hydrophobic coatings, and redundant moisture barriers to ensure our products maintain performance even after prolonged exposure to the harshest wet environments.
Repeated heating and cooling creates thermal stress that can delaminate layers, crack solder joints, and degrade adhesive bonds. Our materials and construction methods are specifically selected to accommodate thermal expansion and contraction without degradation.
The result: products that maintain their performance characteristics through thousands of thermal cycles—far exceeding the demands of real-world use.