Heated Jacket

[dazco]

Has anyone made or attempted to make their own heated vest/ inner jacket?
ive been looking at some posts on some other sites and just wondered how hard/easy it realy is.
As a tight yorkshire man i want to get summet for nowt(or almost nowt)
ive been looking at the price of the parts from maplin electronics and should be able to knock on up for a tenner

 

[Stujw70]

Has anyone made or attempted to make their own heated vest/ inner jacket?


http://heat4jackets.com/purchase.html

I purchased this kit a few weeks ago, £23 all inc. I got myself a Gillet (£8) and spent a few hours sewing. Not been cold enough yet to use it in anger, but i have plugged it in and it works.

Nice and easy to make, would like to get some form of on/ off low/high switch into the circuit. Just don't know what to use though.

Give it another week i'm sure it will be cold enough to use

Good luck

Stu

 

[dazco]

Nice one. errrm, Whats a Gillet?

 

[longdog]

Nice one. errrm, Whats a Gillet?

A posh waistcoat or bodywarmer

 

[dazco]

supose ill have to go to my local Gillet shop then to get one
Thank you

 

[dazco]

STUJW, do you recall what if anything was writen on the reel of wire, ie rating or gauge? and how long was the piece that was used for the jacket?
god, questions questions, good job its nowt complicated im wanting to make
Ill probably still end up frying my tits off anyway

 

[darkhorse]

bought one of those kits and put in the removable lining of my jacket, great bit of kit.

 

[Noel]

Has anyone made or attempted to make their own heated vest/ inner jacket?


http://heat4jackets.com/purchase.html

I purchased this kit a few weeks ago, £23 all inc. I got myself a Gillet (£8) and spent a few hours sewing. Not been cold enough yet to use it in anger, but i have plugged it in and it works.

Nice and easy to make, would like to get some form of on/ off low/high switch into the circuit. Just don't know what to use though.

Give it another week i'm sure it will be cold enough to use

Good luck

Stu

Hi, Maplins do a nice thermostat kit for £4.99 it will probably need a little box to fit it in aswell, works well. Maplins thermostat

 

[Magwych]

I recently received a mail shot about this:

http://www.rohan.co.uk/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=02013&cid=MensJackets&language=en-GB

Expensive ...

 

[STUBBS]

its better to use a swet top so you can sew the wires down the arms, the good thing about the make you own kits is you can heat the parts that you suffer from cold