R value’s and marketing.
Posted: Tue 09 Apr, 2019 8:38 pm
I’m interested to hear experiences.
First time I’ve used my ‘Klymit Insulated static V’ in the almost cold over the weekend. Temp was in the low single digits, small Icey breeze with windchill. Same quilt, shelter, etc as used previously with my exped synmat UL7. However, any pressure point got slight rising cold which makes me nervous to use it deeper into winter. The exped I only got cold when a knee or arm dropped over the side and sat on the ground, and I was confident in its warmth to just below freezing (puncture resistance and baffles are a different story, hence the klymit)
Some of their marketing suggests the ribs are for your bag to loft into, however being a quilt user this doesn’t come into it and I wonder if it’s where the problem might be? Looking at it, there is lots of points that there would be no insulation, and I really don’t get how they get their ambitious R value.
On paper my old exped is R3.3 and the Klymit is R4.4
First time I’ve used my ‘Klymit Insulated static V’ in the almost cold over the weekend. Temp was in the low single digits, small Icey breeze with windchill. Same quilt, shelter, etc as used previously with my exped synmat UL7. However, any pressure point got slight rising cold which makes me nervous to use it deeper into winter. The exped I only got cold when a knee or arm dropped over the side and sat on the ground, and I was confident in its warmth to just below freezing (puncture resistance and baffles are a different story, hence the klymit)
Some of their marketing suggests the ribs are for your bag to loft into, however being a quilt user this doesn’t come into it and I wonder if it’s where the problem might be? Looking at it, there is lots of points that there would be no insulation, and I really don’t get how they get their ambitious R value.
On paper my old exped is R3.3 and the Klymit is R4.4