subject: Heated Mattress Pads: Its Counterparts [print this page] Heated mattress pads are getting widely used due to the warmth and comfort and ease it offers the sleeper although it still has its alternatives available in the market these days. Many of these come as electric comforters, low voltage warming heated mattress pads, warming blankets, mattress toppers, and electric blankets. Let us have a look at some of them and examine the distinctions. Perhaps you can get one much better compared to the other in the end.
Electric comforters provide the same amount of comfort, when added to your bed, as other heated mattress pad offers by keeping you comfortably warm all night. By choosing the desired setting for temperature, it senses and adjusts to room temperature for personalized warmth and shuts off automatically after 10 hours. It can be preheated and the two controls on each side can be adjusted independently. The comforter possesses 8" baffled boxes, 233 thread counts, 100% cotton cover, 8" power cord with 7 ounces fill.
The low voltage warming mattress pad runs at a low voltage of 25 volts mainly because it's geared up with a power box supply to be safely and securely put on the floor alongside the bed; that alters 120 volts AC current to a non-hazardous low voltage making it the most dependable heated pads out in the market nowadays. It gives tender heat which in turn starts off upon the 15-minute preheating and constantly warms the bed for the great comfort while getting to sleep. It truly is the only heated pad that complies with the UL standard for safety. It turns off on its own immediately after ten hours of utilization, has 233 thread count, its fabric is composed of 80/20 poly-cotton blend, very simple and hassle free to use lighted controller and machine-washable. This fits mattresses up to 18" and the queen and king size pads have two controls and 2 power supply boxes.
Warming blankets, just like the heated mattress pad twin, is also available in full, queen and king size categories. It is equipped with electronic digital controller for ease in setting. It operates in a quiet mode, with a 10-hour automatic shut-off feature and a 10 temperature dial setting. It is a lightweight blanket which provides a uniform and consistent heating. These blankets' wiring will not overheat, and it meets or even exceeds UL standards for safety.
The therapeutic mattress pads has fundamentally all the capabilities possessed by heated mattress pads yet with the improvement of the three customized warming zones for each and every man or women, which are the head/shoulders, mid-section, and legs; and has ten warming settings for each zone. It gives individualized setting for only the legs when you desire it actually warm, or the other body sections for warming comfort and ease. These pads include wireless control that have a backlight display, might be preheated for 15 minutes, ten hour auto shut-off and a single control having a separate zone, temperature and pre-heat functions for the opposite bed sides.
Obtaining the knowledge of the different heated mattress pads and their outstanding features will provide you with the decision of choosing the best pads for the ultimate comfort of your sleeping experience. Maybe you can find one better than the other after all.