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It would appear that sleeping bag ratings have no consistency. Heat reviews continue to be determined entirely by the producers of the bags. My 3-pound Sierra Designs bag, for example, was rated to 20 degrees. Genuinely, it never held me as comfortable as my 17-ounce Western Mountaineering sleeping bag, that will be only scored right down to 40 degrees. Is not this an issue when you obtain a bag? Perhaps a 45-degree bag could keep you warmer than a bag.

Regular Sleeping Bag Scores

No matter what temperature a case is rated for, under any program of testing, it'll certainly not keep you warm to that particular temperature. We can not solve the situation of people having figures and different metabolisms. A particular bag might be good for one person down to 20 degrees, while for another it's only good to 40 degrees. You usually can find out if you're a cold or a hot sleeper, but that doesn't help if you don't know whether a case is rated too high or too low.

You need to find out that if a case says 30 degrees it will hold you hotter than one that says 40 degrees. With that, even when you add or subtract 10 or 20 degrees for the particular tastes, you can still figure out which bag could be the one. How can we fully grasp this consistency?

Begin testing with any sleeping bag, by placing a bag of water inside it that is human-sized, weighing maybe 160 pounds. Have three standard sizes for significant, standard and small sleeping bags. Always start with the water temperature at 100 degrees Fahrenheit, and measure the length of time before it drops to 90 degrees. External air temperature has to continually be exactly the same too, whther it's 60 degrees or 40.

The numbers aren't vital. What's crucial here is that once the requirements are chosen, every case is analyzed the same way, with the same conditions (also the product and heat of the testing system will have to be the same). This is what will give consistency to the sleeping bag scores for heat.

Now, if a rated to 40 degrees retains the water above 90 for two hours, a rated for 30 would ever have to help keep it above 90 degrees for a lengthier time. Pegging heat-retention times to particular heat ratings would have been a bit difficult at first. However, once performed, each new bag in the marketplace might be submitted to the testing and easily given a frequent status. We would understand that a lower rating would often mean a warmer bag, degree-by-degree. We could have even old bags tried to see if it's time to replace them.

Company Acceptance?

Would manufacturers pay a private testing company to have their bags scored? Some, initially, because it would have been a a bonus for those organizations that are already conservative in their temperature ratings. They'd have "proof" that the bags are even warmer than they were claiming. Then, fundamentally, all case manufacturers would feel some determination to own their sleeping bags tested, because people would be skeptical about getting ones which were not tested.

I hope someone will take this notion and run with it. An existing client status organization, like Consumer Reports, could record the outcomes and do this by themselves. Even when they stated the bags without temperature ratings, in absolute order by the heat was held by which in the most effective, it would be very useful. One could go through the list and if their current bag kept them warm to 25 degrees, ythey would understand that any bag higher on the list would be warmer. Isn't it time for consistent sleeping bag reviews? save on