Mobile Warming Classic Softshell Men's Snow Snowmobile Jacket - Black / 2X-Large

Ok so I'm not bagging on warmth from an electric jacket, but you have 4 settings. Instead of incrementing slowly and managing the warmth responsibly, it's basically a warm to scalding hot jacket. Warm works most of the time so I am happy with it's use in some situations.

1. Walking around town on 25% setting and the temp outside being around 40 F. It's good! My face might be cold, but my core is nice and warm in a pleasant way. It does however take a while to feel like it's warmed up at the lowest setting. Give it 20 minutes just to get going. After that you should be good.

2. On the motorcycle with an outer layer (in my case a leather jacket) I can ride comfortably on 50% setting with the temp being around 45 F. You need gloves and good leg ware (and of course a helmet) and it's comfortable and you really feel like it'll handle anything...until it cools off more the next week. Once you go above 50% to the 75% it has the potential to burn your skin. This is through a shirt we're talking about. I haven't tried through a sweater. That may be what they are intending. I don't know. There are no instructions that come with it that would give guidelines. From my experience, during a 3 minute ride a 75% it's going to burn you and it's going to hurt for a couple days. Be careful.

If you want to deal on the lower range or play around with layers, then you may find this a good investment. I personally am a little disappointed that they don't go up more gradually with the temperature. I'll play around some more, but it doesn't have the diverse functionality I was anticipating.

Overall: It's good, but not great. It's definitely a risky purchase since you can't return it once the tags are off. This is still new technology, so I have hope they'll continue to improve. I think this is a good around town layer, so if you just want it for walking it's a recommend (I know it seems like I'm bagging on it a lot, but my main reason for buying was for the motorcycle) just be careful with the higher settings!

Thanks for reading.

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