suggest a heated mattress cover
my wife is always cold. we have a true queen in our TT. is there a heated mattress cover that will run on 12v? or do i need to get an inverter to power it off grid?
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If you want to stick with a 12v mattress heater, I see no reason why you couldn’t use one or two of the Electrowarmth twin sized bunk warmers. They aren’t fitted like a typical bottom sheet, they just cover the top of the mattress. One could be layed down the middle, and that might provide enough of a warm spot for two. Or, lay it across the mattress, either in the foot area or the chest area. The bunk warmer is 60” long, and a standard queen mattress is 60” wide.
Another thing I’ve considered doing is buying two of the bunk warmers, and sewing them together to make a dual zone queen mattress heater. It would be wider than a queen mattress, so you’d have 5-6 inches hanging down each side, but as long as you don’t overlap them I don’t see that as a problem. I’d probably start with one and see if that would work. They’ll work best if you still use a heavy blanket or comforter on the bed, otherwise the heat just rises off the pad and the mattress never gets really warm.
They claim a 6.2 amp current draw on the 12v bunk warmers, which is probably accurate since my queen size warmer draws about 7 amps. They cycle off/on even on the highest setting though, so the actual current draw is more like 50% of that. You probably won’t want it on the highest setting while sleeping.
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Another thing I’ve considered doing is buying two of the bunk warmers, and sewing them together to make a dual zone queen mattress heater. It would be wider than a queen mattress, so you’d have 5-6 inches hanging down each side, but as long as you don’t overlap them I don’t see that as a problem. I’d probably start with one and see if that would work. They’ll work best if you still use a heavy blanket or comforter on the bed, otherwise the heat just rises off the pad and the mattress never gets really warm.
They claim a 6.2 amp current draw on the 12v bunk warmers, which is probably accurate since my queen size warmer draws about 7 amps. They cycle off/on even on the highest setting though, so the actual current draw is more like 50% of that. You probably won’t want it on the highest setting while sleeping.
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