How To: Prevail & Sureshot Heated Gloves | Outdoor Research

[@thdjjfsfh]

So, I have a lot of OR stuff and a few pair of heated gloves in the past. I also have cold hands and love winter sports. So please take these as constructive criticism, I actually want to solve this problem. As far as I can tell OR is trying new things and is possibly the most adventurous in their engineering of gloves. I also think that this is mostly a Gore product that OR customize, so don't take this personally. So this is more of a mountaineering problem and not as much of a skiing/snowboarding problem but I feel like we've been going at the heated glove problem incorrectly. 1. Heated gloves generate heat from the back side of the glove, but cold usually comes from gripping something. The squeezing causes the insulation to compress and increase conductive heat loss. If the wearer uses poles, ice tools, or an ice axe then the heating is at the wrong location. 2. Lithium-ion batteries performed poorly in the cold. When in the cold is when you need heat most. This seems like a poor solution to the problem. 3. It's insanely cost-ineffective. If these gloves last five years and but 4 additional pairs of batteries are needed, then that's close to $100 per year. Solution: OR have aerogel gloves, they are great on the gripping side, but not so much on the backside. May I suggest you put the two together? Also, instead of using lithium batteries and heating elements, how about OR sewn a pocket for "hotpack". They are pretty light and inexpensive and they don't suffer the same performance penalty and care that lithium battery needs. They perform great in the cold, they don't need to be charged, conditioned, or maintained. Perhaps provide a way to control the amount of air that gets to the hotpack to control the heat output. Thank you for reading.

[@angelak.french9340]

I lost my charging cable and the OR website doesn't have replacement. Now what?

[@Zhenn9413]

Fully charged

[@stephaniedoan7114]

Hi wassup