- Hey folks, Ben from Snowys here today
with the OZtrail 3D Fatmat Lite.
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This is OZtrail's version
of the 10 centimetre thick, self-inflating camp mattress,
the perfect upgrade for your swag or your tent.
So this is how the Fatmat Lite comes when you buy it.
It's been rolled up like this in the factory,
so it doesn't quite get this small in here.
But it measures about 70 centimetres in length
and this bag is about 25 centimetres in diameter,
and overall weighs around about 2.7 kilogrammes.
Included with the mat,
you get, obviously the storage sack,
that I just showed you,
with carry handles on it
that go all the way around the base of the mat here.
So they're not just stitched in at the top,
so the weight is distributed all the way around the mat,
and that's just got a pull string closure on the end there.
We'll pack it up later and show you how easy that is.
Couple of straps just to hold it in place
once you've got it rolled up,
and a little repair kit here
with some glue and a few patches of fabric.
Once you've got the mat in inflated.
Now I've got this sitting in front of me here
and I've blown a bit of air in it to make it sort of firm,
but it measures a little bit different
than what OZtrail specify,
about 200 centimetres in length
and about 70 centimetres in width on the top,
but it does bow out a little bit on the sides there,
this has got a bit of extra pressure in it at the moment,
and 10 centimetres of thickness there,
so offers a good amount of comfort.
Now it's made on top here,
of what they call a stretch 30 denier pongee fabric.
It's got quite a,
almost a velour feel to it,
and a bit of a pattern in there for a little bit of style.
And on the base is a 75 denier, slightly heavy of duty,
they call it a non-slip base,
I'm not sure why,
but it is a durable base
and there's no rubbery feel or anything on it.
And inside of that is a cored foam.
What that means is that along the sides here,
there's holes drilled right along the length
of this foam here,
which allows it to pack up a little bit smaller,
but it still offers a good amount of support and comfort,
as well as insulation.
And that foam is bonded to the exterior here
which means you can blow it up quite firmly,
like it is here,
and this isn't gonna expand out.
But it does mean you can't put too much pressure in it,
so don't go and use your air compressor to blow it up.
Now they haven't specified an R-Value for the mat,
but most mats of this style,
of this 10 centimetre thick mat,
are around about sort of 8,
an R-Value of 8 to 9,
which means it has a good thermal resistance,
so with both hot and cold ground underneath,
so it's an all weather mattress.
Now the inflation and deflation of these mats
is all done through this valve on the end here.
Now I've pumped a bit of extra air in this at the moment,
just to puff it up for this video.
If you do that,
don't use like an air compressor,
just use a 12 volt pump or a hand pump,
or your mouth,
preferably not your mouth
'cause of the moisture that goes in it,
'cause you don't wanna damage the mat
by putting too much air,
you'll end up tearing the bonding
between the outer fabric and the foam inside.
Now this has got a screw cap on it.
If I undo that,
this valve is in the inflate mode at the moment.
So that little yellow bit that you can see in there
is a little rubber flap
that's stopping the air coming out
but is allowing air to go in.
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If I spin this around now,
you can see that's letting all the air out
that I'd pumped into the mat.
And if I spin that all the way around,
it then goes into a deflate mode,
which we'll show you more shortly,
but that allows the air to come out
but not get sucked back in.
The foam in here,
if you unroll it with this in,
in inflate mode,
will pull the air in naturally by itself
and you don't want that to be happening
when you're trying to pack the mat up.
I'm gonna put the cap back on that
and I'm gonna sit on it
to sort of try and describe to you
how comfortable this feels without any extra air in it.
So that's just the mat puffed up,
without me putting extra pressure into it.
So I can certainly put more in there
and make it as firm as I want.
So if I sit on this now,
as I would expect,
I'm going through to the bottom there now.
I can feel foam,
like I'm sitting on a layer of foam,
so I'm not sitting hard on the ground
but I can certainly go right through.
So, if I wanted this to be comfortable,
sitting on it like this,
I'd need to put more air into it.
But if I lay down
and distribute my weight evenly across the mat,
even though I haven't put extra air in this,
I've supposedly just allowed the foam to expand
naturally by itself,
and then done the cap up on the end,
it actually feels really comfortable.
I'm not going through to the bottom,
I could feel myself sinking down into the mat,
in sort of the pressure points,
and I could sleep quite comfortably here at the moment.
Quite often, people put a lot of extra air in these
and it becomes uncomfortable to sleep on.
For a side sleeper,
with less air in the mat,
I can just fill my shoulder
probably starting to sort of bottom out a little bit
but it's not hard on the ground,
it's just the foam compressed under my shoulder,
but it does allow that depth in my shoulder
to dip down into the mat.
If I had a pillow here,
I feel pretty comfortable.
If this just pumped up firmly
my shoulder would be much higher on the mat
and uncomfortable.
So plenty of room for adjustment
with a 10 centimetre mat here,
probably the best way around it
is to pump extra air into it,
lay on it,
and then you can just use something slightly,
not too sharp,
but in this valve here once it's done up
or once it is puffed up, sorry,
you can blow air in there,
make it really firm,
and then just push on the yellow bit in there
and let air out a little bit at a time,
just until it reaches your comfort level.
So that's probably the best way to manage it.
Now, set up and pack up of these mats is really easy.
Set up in particular,
you just don't undo that valve and let the foam expand,
use the 12 volt pump or hand pump,
as I mentioned,
to put extra air in it,
and then adjust the pressure
with that little valve on the end.
Pack up is also really easy.
I'm not gonna show you this today,
we've got a video
that we've created specifically on how to do that.
It's the same for most self-inflating mats,
so we'll refer to that in the description below.
So check that out,
if you're wondering how to pack these mats up.
But that is the Oztrail 3D Fatmat Lite.
A great mat,
a great upgrade for your swag mattress,
you're gonna give you extra thickness,
easier to pack up.
Also just really comfortable on the floor of your tent
or even on top of a stretcher.
You can check 'em out online at snowys.com.au
where you find 'em at our lowest price every day.
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