well today as you might have spotted absolutely freezing out here we've got
loads of snow some of you may remember while there was a television advert for this product
Ready Brek now if you left the house after having a ball of this well porridge but you
could adorn it with about three tons of sugar if you had that you left the house with a nice toasty
orange glow around you and that's a little bit like how we may feel today gary. Yes because i'm
modeling makita's cordless which is really handy here there's not a socket outlet in sight heated
vest and this is what we're gonna put to test and i think this is the perfect day to test it
it is but obviously we've got to get close to the product we don't have to take it off out here
let's go back to the workshop and uh i'll treat you to a bowl of this cereal gary well
you promised we would do the review out here this doesn't attack my hands did it oh dear
now i don't know if you realized it in that introduction there i have never ever in the
history of Efixx thought i'd ever hear the words gary is now modeling things yeah so we've moved
on from doing reviews to modeling and he's even wearing a ridiculous flat cap at the same time
as well well it's because i'm living up here in is it lancashire or yorkshire i don't think it's any
difference so comment below if you believe there is a difference between lancaster and yorkshire i
just think it's one great big area people wearing caps are rather flat in uh presentation looking
but we're not talking about cap today we're going to continue this review on
of the makita heated vest which i'm modelling just to be clear we are in Yorkshire we're in Skipton
it is absolutely freezing outside we've had a lot of snow it's probably just uh hovering just above
freezing while we're out there so what better than to test these out yes right well you say that what
better way to test them out but that's not the reason why we bought them and this is something
you're probably going to try and avoid in this little review of these makita heated vests that
i'm modeling yes okay i'm modeling because the the ambient temperature in here okay yeah so
we've got it all around us this ambient feel isn't it and i've got a i've got a thermostat i'll bring
the camera and i'll even do my own cam work here so bring it in 21 okay that is set 220 what's an
aspirational number though is it 21 because what is the ambient temperature in here 10 and why will
it never get to 21 uh because we haven't got the heat sorry it sounded remarkable like i was here
in lancashire or yorkshire somewhere in the north with no heating modelling this jacket yeah there
you go exactly if you've come up from the south you expect it'll be nice and warm so you've got to
buy these jackets yes so that's the real reason we've actually we've bought them
through necessity i would suggest at the moment and we yeah okay we're waiting for eddie to come
up and put some heating in for us and it hasn't happened just yet okay so we've put them on so
we said we'll give them a fair test we've been outside and it's no different to being inside or
we suggest with the ambient temperature out there what's your first impressions they're very good
hold back with your opinion i i did notice on the the the box you got your l on my medium box
that i got uh presented to me somebody put xl on my medium so all right what's going on now
it's just a little bit mix up there yeah mix up right so let's see how they work shall we well
sure yeah so yours you're not on at the minute no i'm not honest you can move my microphone across
okay so have a look so you've got the the jacket itself the medium jacket always modelling yes
medium jacket so this works with the Makita LXT battery series all right let's have a look it's
18 volts okay so that's the 18 volt battery yep and you've got the four amp hour version gary okay
we'll get you know questionable but let's let's plug it in before that so you've got uh you've got
this adapter here yep and that lead here is going to connect somewhere inside one of the pockets
yeah nest that together yeah so you've got the pockets yeah i'll recommend that you do this not
on it's it's a little bit around the back isn't it so yeah yeah we'll plug it in first and see where
that one is and that just battery just drops into the pocket like that okay and then we'll zip it
up so if you look at my one there you'll see the battery's actually there okay yeah i've got that
i'm gonna rush mine onto my body if that's okay yeah i've been waiting there we've had more than
one take so it's been cold ah so we're gonna slide that on yeah now that's that's the bit to start
with you can you you can feel that battery can you so yeah it does take a little bit getting used to
and i would suggest you jumping in the van or in our case when we went off to uh those snowy hills
is where you get in the way when you're driving so you do have to take your jacket off um and yeah
hopefully you've got heated seats but yeah if you do it actually feels like you're wearing a heated
seat or a hot water bottle strapped to you but i need to turn mine on so if you want
to take if you you do hand cam this time i'm going to have a little bit of fun so so this button here
will turn it on there's four positions it could be in and i'm in the current off position so i'm
going to press and hold the button yeah press and hold so that's why you don't accidentally uh
accidentally turn it on you wouldn't want that to happen so what's the big red sound
so you're on high setting now lovely okay nice and toasty and warm how long will the battery last
in that one six hours okay so if i press it again it'll change will it yes i've got a medium setting
okay then just need to do a short press to move between okay thank you for correcting me so now
i'm on the medium setting how long will the battery last on this roughly for 12 hours
wow okay and then we've got one more yeah yeah that's a cool setting but that doesn't
mean it's chilling yet that just means it's the lower power setting and that
should last for 23 hours oh wow that's a long day at work so i'll press it again
so i'm back to hot yes you could practically live in that jacket yeah right because
yeah okay yeah just thought i'd get that one in just so i'm modeling it so yeah so
that's pretty good isn't it so we can go between we've had it on the the hotter setting oh yes it
is it's a cold day in here isn't it yeah okay uh just uh let's have another i have blistering 10
degrees here in the workshop so there's some other bits isn't there so we we can also uh talk about
maybe a little hidden feature that we've got in here and we'll show you the hidden feature this is
the bonus obviously because we've got that battery pack in the back on the battery pack is a uh
that's a usb charger yeah right so let's have a little look then so you've got the ability there
for obviously changing it's just uh it's obviously it's been in here a while so it's uh yeah keeping
me nice and charged up so we've seen before and with that adapter that goes on top of the makita
batteries aren't we yes we did a review the makita adp 05 so that's uh yeah it's our partner another
part number okay this is the cv 102 d slash dcv202 right okay there you go i love a part number so
yeah we've got that little hidden gem so shall we see how we rooted our case yes it doesn't
come with the cable so let's have a look at how how you route the cable from the battery
inside the jacket okay so let's see how we routed our charge in lead round and gordon obviously had
his mobile phone there poked in his top pocket so let's open this out and we will see a couple
of points here so this is uh where the battery uh is kept so we're going to come through there
i'm going to go through this holding position here and there's a tiny hole where we've got
our actual lead to go in so i'm going to go in this way around so we push that through
like that and then we can connect into the bottom of our phone pop that back into there
and then we just pass it through and then we find it into here for the battery saying i
could come the other way around i could have come back through this way all this way so
we just need to find this section here but the battery's kept we just simply push it into there
and once we pulled that through we're then looking at connecting it to the actual battery itself
so i've got the charging section here which just clips on i've seen these in a different review
as well so same sort of thinking usb outlet there and the ability to turn it on and off
bring the two together so we can now pop back in before we put it back into the pocket
in like so and we are currently on position sorry ability turn it on or off so pop it on
just check the other end and we can see hopefully we're charging so put that back into there and if
we now connect it like so we've also got the ability to use the heated vest element as well
so you could just do charging your phone or you could do both charging your phone and the heating
element of the actual vest itself yeah i like that again so you've got the option of either using it
for both heating yourself and charging your device up or you can just pick one or the other can you
yeah yeah so it's a it's a USB charger that comes with a jacket attached jacket they also do them in
a high-vis version is that right there is a hives and a jacket version i think it depends on where
you are in the world right yeah so jackie version having the longer sleeves and the longer sleeves
these we just got the body heated warmer now maybe if it was me because obviously this is not a
i wouldn't say this is a hugely durable fabric it does feel sort of body warmer-ish yes okay
so you'd probably snag it on site if there's like nails and carpentry hanging around and stuff like
that you might want to be a bit more discreet in your warm jacket and just hide it under under your
existing high-vis so it is also washable is it yes so uh another top tip for you here make sure
you disconnect the battery if you're putting in i think quite early on in the cycle you'd probably
understand something's in there with it yeah so yeah not a good idea you can see the soil yeah
i've left the battery in the pocket of the heated jacket so remove the battery but
yeah washable at 30 degrees and that yeah again gordon if i've got i've all got the model in one
thank you for letting us know it's washed at 30 degrees you know to use a washing machine
i don't know where it is yeah okay yeah yes i'm modelling the jacket that you're washing
at 30 degrees yeah so don't spill pie down okay yeah we had a bit of a problem the instruction
booklet i would like to suggest is probably one of the thickest ones i've ever come across for a
jacket with a zip and a connection for a battery okay that's all languages i think yeah should not
be on the planet so while they're on the thing of packaging so we spotted on the front of here
it's got the areas where you might think that the uh heating elements are we don't think we don't
think they're in those areas actually okay can we prove that let's bring in the thermal camera
and have a little look okay let's bring the fleur thermal imaging camera in to have a little look
whoa look at that that's a cold nose by the looks of things it's big enough it radiates enough heat
but just us how cold it is in this place it is cold in this place so as we come down we should be
able to clearly see these whole heated areas there we are sort of pocketed areas i would suggest warm
hands for you and they're great especially if you're a clean car on site and you spend your
day just pointing at things yeah yes i'm sure so you could say that's hot stuff all right let's
turn around and look at the back okay so yeah so that's sort of sort of middle of the back yeah
middle back here okay so that's certainly where i feel it okay and radiates obviously we see where
the red heat's radiating up your back so that's uh yeah that's good there we go prove the point so
that's uh so yeah they're definitely here and if you say if you've got someone on site who likes to
stand with a hands in the pocket watching you work they'll love this jacket because
it also warms your hands as well because that's where the heating elements are at the front
yeah absolutely and then obviously the one at the back seems to be more middle
back rather than upper back yeah the packaging slightly not deceiving i would suggest they are
in there but they're slightly in different positions and the thermal camera shows up
brilliantly didn't it along with other parts of your body that were a little chilly weren't they
yeah it's cold in it it is cold in here isn't it let's just check the temperature in here
10 degrees celsius still 10 degrees but probably people on site gary yeah much more cold conditions
it won't warm your hands if you're carrying conduit and tray around in this weather or trying
to bend the cable in and also we had this debate because obviously we've not been overly grafting
today if we were obviously been doing some work behind the scenes but it's just enough to get
your core temperature up on the hottest setting isn't it because obviously you're going to be
working away you'll have other layers of clothing on i think when your body temperature gets to a
nice temperature actually the the heated element will keep it at that temperature better yeah which
is really good but as always we're interested in your comments have makita come up with an
absolute blinding product there are actually gary some other companies apparently Milwaukee do a
version of course i don't think or do a version as well so obviously we know people have a battle of
different types of tools we've been told that only plumbers use makita oh right is that one
comment that came out there's nothing wrong with that because i think in one of my videos i said i
love plumbing because i fitted myself a smart thermostatic rant valve in that video and that's
a tribute to a person that's out on social media in the plumbing world it's absolutely crushing it
but we're always interested in your comments is this something you think's a great product
by the kia we don't think the coffee machine is and i've brought it up there we don't think the
coffee machine is brilliant i think we're ready i think the bonkers department has done well yeah
i like this and i think you'll see it quite a bit on the channel if you're watching this live
stream during the winter months i would suggest yeah we're probably going to be wearing them
what's your feedback how do you find them on site is the battery a pest is it one of those things
you've jumped in the van a couple of times and it's caused you some inconvenience or discomfort
please let us know about that is there something we've missed out a key feature that you want to
share within the community leave that comment below and if somebody else is in there and they
want some help answer those questions as well yeah and how durable is it on the wash cycle and do you
model it better than gary yeah leave all those comments below we're going to go off and have an
argument you