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teuchter said:
What a stupid concept. If you're going to have heating in your clothes it should be in the innermost, not outermost, layer. I suppose that people who use these also go to bed with an electric blanket on top of the duvet, and install radiators on the outside of their house.
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My gilet (not, admittedly a heated one) is designed to be worn between your clothes and jacket - I'd assumed this was the case with these ones?
 
pogofish said:
I could see these being a right hit with the toonsers/city dwellers who head to the wilds to stand in smart groups and chat outside the beer tent on their near-mandatory annual trip to a Highland Games - In August!




That's what hill ponies are for:

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That pony's shitting a grass skirt
 
Nivag said:
You can get cooling vests.
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having experimented expensively and extensively with a variety of cooling vests over the years on projects in Africa and the Middle East I can confirm that all commercially available cooling vests are shit and don’t work efficiently enough for the financial outlay

if you have 800 people manually working in 50 degrees the only thing that works is stop them working through the hottest periods, give them rest food and water periods routinely and if anyone starts looking like they have heat illness stop the job for all completely

most hot countries have employment legislation legally restricting manual middle of the day working hours completely

on a personal level cooling vests are uncomfortable, mainly wet/damp and when the wet damp runs out they then become a warmer insulating layer. You use water better off inside your body to dampen the vests and they don’t appear to cool any better than the evolutionary sweat response(wear clothes that help the evaporative effect)

wear Better clothes for environment, moderate your work output, drink plenty of fluids, have an adequate balanced diet monitor symptoms of heat exhaustion using the buddy buddy system and monitor the colour of your urine

extra salts in diet or electrolyte “sports drinks” shouldn’t be necessary if the workload matches the conditions and a balanced diet is taken

here endeth the heat illness lecture
 
bellaozzydog said:
having experimented expensively and extensively with a variety of cooling vests over the years on projects in Africa and the Middle East I can confirm that all commercially available cooling vests are shit and don’t work efficiently enough for the financial outlay

if you have 800 people manually working in 50 degrees the only thing that works is stop them working through the hottest periods, give them rest food and water periods routinely and if anyone starts looking like they have heat illness stop the job for all completely

most hot countries have employment legislation legally restricting manual middle of the day working hours completely

on a personal level cooling vests are uncomfortable, mainly wet/damp and when the wet damp runs out they then become a warmer insulating layer. You use water better off inside your body to dampen the vests and they don’t appear to cool any better than the evolutionary sweat response(wear clothes that help the evaporative effect)

wear Better clothes for environment, moderate your work output, drink plenty of fluids, have an adequate balanced diet monitor symptoms of heat exhaustion using the buddy buddy system and monitor the colour of your urine

extra salts in diet or electrolyte “sports drinks” shouldn’t be necessary if the workload matches the conditions and a balanced diet is taken

here endeth the heat illness lecture
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I did wonder from a physics point of view how cooling vests work. Evaporation. Yuk.
 
I'm sat here wfh and trying to economise with the heating atm so am considering something along these lines.

The one TopCat bought isn't available any more so wondered if anyone else had bought one lately?
 
Voley said:
Thanks spitfire.

That looks like the sort of thing I'm after. I'll see if if can get it a bit cheaper elsewhere.
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I did look at the ones on ebay but they were a little too cheap if you get what I mean. I like spending a little bit of money on electrical things that are worn by my loved ones.

danny la rouge I think that's the case with all of them but you can add battery pack as an optional extra. We already had one so no problem.
 
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