- G'day, folks.
Ben from Snowys,
today taking you for a walkthrough
of this Dometic Pico FTC 1X1 TC
one-person air pole swag.
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- Pico's weatherproof polycotton canvas swag
with an air pole system that makes it really easy to set up,
it's super easy to pack away,
and it has an integrated mat.
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So we're ducked down to the park at the end of the street
from the Adelaide store.
Once again, bit of traffic noise in the background.
Sorry, but we really wanted to get this
Pico FTC 1X1 swag set up for you.
This is a single-person swag, with an air pole system
that packs up really small.
Weighs, by my measurements, 9 1/2 kilos.
Dometics are 8 1/2,
and it packs up inside this bag here, which,
sorry, measures about 60 centimetres in length
and about 25 centimetres in height and depth.
And it's got these backpack straps on here as well,
so you can cart it to and from
your campsite nice and easily.
Now the tent's made from a 210 GSM polycotton canvas.
I think it's about 35% cotton,
65 polyester,
so it's a really good mix.
It feels really nice and soft.
It's not seam sealed,
so we're going back to the traditional canvas,
whereby you sort of,
you have to season it,
and then these seams swell
and that's what gives it its waterproof properties.
And Dometic,
all I've been able to get outta them
with regards to waterhead or how waterproof is it,
is that they've tested it
to 60 millimetres of rain per hour,
which is gonna give you a really waterproof shelter,
but, this is made to a really high standard.
If we have a look at the other fabrics,
the mesh is a reasonably durable,
like, it feels quite durable.
It's not like, a super fine soft mesh,
but it's quite a durable mesh.
I don't know whether it's midgey proof,
but it certainly feels like it's tough
and it's gonna keep most of the bugs out.
It is pretty fine.
And then, down to the floor,
this is made of polyethylene tarp-type material
so it's that crinkly material,
but it's really, really durable material
that's used in tents and has been used for many, many years
and it just lasts and lasts and lasts.
So do a bit of a walk around the tent.
I've got this set up with this awning at the front here,
with these adjustable,
these are aluminium poles here, so,
this is all included.
I've got it set up so the water will run back this way,
and they have these little gussets here, as well,
which kind of give it a bit more protection
if you've got that sort of open.
Then I guess, this fabric here
is a little more exposed to weather coming in this way,
and these gussets just zip close
to give it a little bit more protection
and create a little bit more tautness,
perhaps a bit of runoff off the awning here as well.
Now, you can collapse these down if you like.
So if you wanted to set it up angling away from the tent,
you can do so.
We'll just remove it completely, so.
All the guy ropes in this are this nylon webbing,
so they don't get tangled up.
It's really easy to use and it's just got a tri-glide buckle
and these awning poles are a lightweight aluminium
adjustable awning pole that operate really well
so you've got two of those.
So you don't have to set up the awning like that,
you can just zip it,
or take this out and either leave this closed
or zip it up completely, if you like.
We'll go on a bit more on that shortly.
I wanna keep walking around the tent first,
around to this end here.
All of these guy ropes are integrated,
so these don't come off.
They're attached at the bottom, they're attached at the top.
It's all integrated,
so really easy to set up.
It's just one peg does both of those.
Now these serve two purposes.
They anchor the tent down,
but they also hold this storm, sort of,
awning over the top,
or weather-protected awning over the top of a window here.
Now, this is just a mesh window
with an internally adjustable canvas panel.
So it's for ventilation, it's not for access.
Just down to the right, we've got a little cover.
This is a bit of a protective sort of cover over here.
If I undo this,
you'll see that there's the valve here
that we use to inflate the mat inside the swag
and that'll make more sense shortly when we crawl in.
And then to the right of that again,
is another little cover here,
which goes over the top of another valve,
and that's the single inflation point
for the whole frame of the tent.
And I'll cover off a bit more on the frames very shortly.
And coming around to the back of the tent,
not much to see here.
Large panel, no doors or anything.
You can see a bit of the structure of the tent.
You've got a single pole over the top
and the two hoops at each end,
so water's gonna run down here
and this is a good point to show you that,
well, there's another peg point there if you want to use it,
but there's also this skirt here that goes over the top.
'Cause these seams aren't seam sealed,
they're,
once it's seasoned, they're gonna be waterproof.
But where you get instances like this
where this fabric is joined to this fabric,
you can get seepage there.
So, Dometic have added this skirt,
all the way around the tent,
to cover this joint point here.
So the water's gonna run over here and away,
it's not gonna get caught up in this seam here,
so that just makes for an extra weatherproof design.
Moving on to the other end of the tent,
it's a mirror of what we saw at the other end
so we've got these integrated guy ropes,
storm flap,
or storm awning over the top,
of a weather-protected mesh window there
with internally adjustable storm flap.
And back around to the front, again,
we'll go into a bit more detail on these doors here,
and I wanna show you before we go inside,
that tucked up underneath this skirt here,
it's hidden away a bit,
is a little access point for power.
So if you want 240- or 12-volt power coming into the tent,
you've got that point there.
Once you've got your cord going in there,
that can sit over the top
and heaps of weather protection there
so you're not gonna get any water in that.
Now, the door itself,
as I mentioned before,
you can roll this up,
which I'll do now.
You've got these tabs up here,
so I'm gonna roll this canvas panel up and out the way,
and you could then sleep in it
with just the mesh door done up.
And if it's a warm night,
you've got the mesh door and then the windows on each end,
so you've got ventilation on three sides of the tent.
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Below that is the mesh door that's,
you could also roll open, if you like.
And I will do it today,
just so that it's out the way while we're filming.
But this,
you could leave it open
if you really wanna let sleep out and let all the bugs in,
but, this will also secure up and out the way here as well.
Now, I just wanna cover off on the air poles,
'cause people might be be concerned about air poles.
They go flat, the tent doesn't stay up,
but there's actually a lot of benefits to them
in that I mean,
I guess they are prone to punctures,
but there's only four small points
and we'll show you when we get inside,
four small points of these poles
that are in touch with the ground so,
unlikely that they're gonna get a puncture up here.
And the real benefits of air poles
is if the wind does really pick up
or someone falls on your swag and it collapses down,
like so,
it just pops back into place.
Now if I did that with a steel or aluminium-framed tent,
it's gonna be bent,
and it's gonna be completely destroyed.
You can replace the poles inside these tents,
so I'm wanna crawl inside
and show you the structure inside there now.
So looking at the the tubes,
or the air poles inside here,
there's a TPU bladder inside here
and it's contained within this protective outer layer.
There's a zipper on the side that's cable,
camel toe closed at the moment.
If you did happen to need to replace
the bladders inside this,
you can unzip this,
put a new bladder in and you're good to go.
This is just Velcroed to the base of the tent.
I'll see if I can get it off the bottom of the pole.
It's not quite gonna bend,
but you can just see
that there's Velcro on the bottom there.
It attaches in the corner here,
and then the mat
sits around the pole there in the corner as well.
So these zips feature all the way around the frame
so if we work our way up,
you can see this brown, grey section here
is actually where the frame is integrated into the tent.
And then you've got these zips
that run across the top here as well,
so these are all there,
so that the bladders can be replaced,
but the actual pressure that the bladders are tested to
to be able to handle,
is far in excess of what's required
to be able to pitch the tent in here,
which is, pitch the swag, sorry,
so, well in excess of nine PSI.
So, very unlikely that you're actually gonna get a puncture
in the air pole system.
Now the mat,
I guess the mat's more prone to holes
because it is on the floor.
If you pitch it on a a prickly surface,
then you can get a puncture in here,
so it's always a good idea to use a ground sheet.
But once again, you can either remove or replace this.
It goes over those poles like I showed you before,
and then you've got this inlet port here which,
once you remove the valve,
you can pop that out through the tent there
and you can actually just use
a completely different mat inside here.
You just need to allow for the fact
that these poles sit inside,
so if you get a square mat, it's not quite gonna fit.
Now, this mat is about 3 1/2 centimetres thick,
as I mentioned.
It's just air filled,
but it feels nice and comfortable.
And the benefit of this air-filled mat
is that it stays in here and everything packs up altogether.
You don't have to throw your main and pump it up separately.
With regards to the space inside the swag,
you've got 215 centimetres
from the very end wall to the next end wall.
Now, I'm 185 centimetres,
so I've got plenty of space here for my pillow,
or even to store a few clothes and things
up above my head there,
and 90 centimetres in width.
So heaps of room for a single person.
Now, if you did wanna put a different mat inside here,
you just need to allow for the fact,
as I mentioned,
that these poles are about eight centimetres in diameter,
so the mat's kinda gonna need to squeeze in between here.
And so, you've got about
roughly 190 centimetres to this inside edge here
and about 70 centimetres between the poles there.
But for most mats you can squish 'em in
and it should fit fine anyway.
And in terms of height,
it's about 90 centimetres to the bottom of the pole
at this highest point here,
so enough room for me to sit upright
without my head just touching in the middle,
but it does taper down at the ends there.
Now, features inside the swag,
once again, starting at this end here,
this is the internally adjustable privacy screen
that I mentioned.
We open that.
We can't open that mesh panel there,
that's just for ventilation,
but we can then roll that up,
use the toggles down here to secure that up and out the way.
It's where the mat comes in at this end here.
To the right of that,
air pole system and then a little pocket here for storage.
Running across the back of the tent past me,
nothing to see along here until we get to the other end.
Got another one of those little storage pockets there.
Same thing at this end here.
Internally adjustable privacy screen,
with the mesh panel on the outside there.
Pole system above that,
and then down in this corner here,
we've got that power access point that goes to the outside
so we can get 12-volt power inside if we like.
So that works with these Velcro tabs that feature here,
just to secure a cable that comes in the tents.
There's one here,
one in the corner here and one here.
And then they run across the top of the swag here as well,
so another one here,
another one here,
and it stops at this little metal hook here.
So we can have a cable coming in
to run a lantern that we'd hang here if you like,
and you can hang a reasonable sized lantern on that.
Anything too big's gonna take up space
inside the tent, anyway.
Now on top of that,
it does have this black strip here
that runs right down to here,
and same back the other way,
past the centre and back to here.
So that's a the loop side of Velcro.
So if you've got a LED strip light
that's in a PVC cover,
that has a Velcro tab on it,
a Velcro strip on it,
you can attach it up here
and use that power access point to power it.
That is a rundown of the features
of the Pico FTC 1X1 TC
inflatable swag.
If you're really interested
in that swag experience sleeping outside,
but you don't have the space
to store a big bulky canvas swag,
then this is the perfect alternative.
And it has the benefits of being super easy to pack up.
If you have any questions on this swag,
let us know down in the comments below.
Otherwise you can check 'em out online
at snowys.com.au
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