- Good day folks, Ben from Snowys here today,
with a Zempire Bomberpad sleeping mat.
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They're a seven centimetre thick mat,
with a nice pinch top to it.
Nice soft feel and a die cut foam inside.
They offer really good balance
between white pack size and also price,
to make you sleep comfortably in your campsite.
When you buy the mat, this is how they come.
This is the twin here about 70 centimetres in length
and roughly 20 centimetres in diameter,
depending on how much you pack it up,
or how tight you roll it up.
And the twin we'll say roughly 70 centimetres in length,
and about 25 to 30 centimetres in diameter.
Now I've got the single one in front of me here.
I'm gonna take the twin out of the bag
and let that inflate while we talk about all the features.
I can show you the valve while I do that.
So inside the bag,
which is just a drawer top bag here.
You get a little repair kit
with some glue and some fabric patches.
And then you get the mattress.
So now this is secured with a Velcro strap.
Runs around here.
We can put them aside they're not attached.
So make sure you keep them with the bag,
Roll this out.
And then we can undo the valve on the end here.
It's just a single valve on the end
that features on both the single and the double.
I'll show you the single shortly.
We undo that and inside is a little one way valve.
Now at the moment, this is in day flight mode.
So that is gonna allow air to come out of the mat
but not back in.
If we push this and flick it around
or we can actually just leave it right open if we like.
That's now allowing air inside the mat.
If we flick it around even further,
that's in the mode whereby
if we were to lie on the mat while it was tight,
we could, air wouldn't come out
but we can adjust the pressure.
But for now I'm gonna leave it completely open like that.
And I'm gonna fold this right here,
and leave it on the ground to inflate for a little while,
while we talk about the features of the single mat here.
And the single mat here
has been left to inflate for a little while.
So you can see that the foam now at full inflation here.
From new these mats are gonna take a little while to expand.
The foam's got a memory
of being compressed from the factory.
So when you get at home,
just undo this valve
and just leave it to sit like this for a while.
You can use a pump
if you've got a fitting that fits on there.
Just to blow a bit of air in to speed it up.
But it's quite normal for this foam to take a few hours
possibly even a few days
to sort of expand its full potential.
Once it has done, this is how it will look.
Now we'll just talk dimensions first.
Now both mats are about 200 centimetres in length.
Give or take a few centimetres
depending on which one you're looking at.
The single here 63 centimetres in width,
and the double here 132 centimetres in width.
And they're both seven centimetres in thickness here.
The single here weighs about 2.3 kilos,
the double about 4.6 kilos.
Regarding the fabrics that these are made of,
the top surface here
is a 75D peached polyester.
It's got kind of a soft feel to it.
Same with the sides here 75D animated denier side.
They're kind of stretchy the sides on this,
to allow the the air,
to sort of, or the foam to feel a little bit spongy
while you're lying on it.
And the top's sort of pitched up.
And that is a 75 denier polyester on the base there as well.
And inside the mat is an open.
So die cut foam.
So you can notice wavy sort of texture on the top here,
that probably isn't gonna make much difference
to the comfort of it when you're sleeping on it.
But it does look kinda cool.
Now I'm gonna lie on this mat shortly and show you
how you can adjust the pressure.
And so to give you an idea of how comfortable it is.
But I just wanna show you before I do that
the mats underneath here the double,
which is now set for probably five to 10 minutes
just with this valve open.
And that is probably outside of that 50% inflation here.
So probably a good two to three hours of sitting
would see this mat expand right out to its full potential.
But right now, I'm gonna put this aside,
and I'm gonna lie on the single mat for you.
I'm just noticing as I'm holding this up on the angle,
you can really see this wavy sort of effect there.
Now you might see it better on the camera there.
But it's not a really high wave,
but it does look kind of cool,
and it gives a bit of a texture to the top.
I should took off in a couple of little features.
Firstly, our value
simple I don't put down our value on this mat here,
but we estimate it should be around about six.
There's no science behind that,
it's just a bit of an estimation
looking at other mats in the range.
And this top surface here and the bottom surface
they're actually bonded to the foam inside
the only part that's not bonded to this stretchy
sort of side material,
to allow the air to sort of billow out a little bit
on the sides there.
Now I'll lie on it,
and this is inflated to the point
where we just left this valve open here.
So it's sucked in enough air for the foam to expand.
We haven't put extra pressure in there.
I'm gonna lie on it like that to show you,
I guess how comfortable it is and how much
I sort of bottom out I'll do this valve out.
You can put extra air in there,
you could use your own breath to pump air in.
Not preferable, because you put moisture
into the mat that way,
but if you can find a pump with a large attachment,
you can pump extra air in there to make it nice and tight.
But if I sit on this now, just sitting on there right now,
I can feel myself drop through to the bottom.
There's still a fair bit of foam between me,
and the ground side,
probably still interrelate pretty well
and it's certainly not uncomfortable.
But if I lie down,
obviously my weights then distributed
on the entire length of the mat.
And lying on my back now,
I'm not bottoming out,
I'm not sitting through to the bottom there at all.
If I lie on my side,
my hips feel pretty comfortable.
My hips don't feel like they're bottoming out,
but my shoulder, I've got pretty broad shoulders,
is certainly sort of touching the bottom there.
So not a lot of depth in the mat,
obviously, it's a seven centimetre mat.
so you can only expect so much sort of adjustment there,
but is still pretty comfortable.
If I did find that this was too tight or too firm
or if I put extra air in it and find that it's too firm,
I can adjust it while I'm lying on it.
If I come around to the valve at the end here.
if you can grab a pointy item not sharp,
you can just press the little yellow valve in there,
and that's gonna let air out.
I haven't got anything sharp here at the moment.
So I'm just gonna spin that around.
You can just see the air coming out,
and I can adjust that down just to my own sort of comfort.
So I'd probably ask you want more air in there now,
but I could certainly feel the difference
just with letting that little bit of air out,
with my shoulder now sort of jumping through to the bottom.
So there is a bit of adjustment there
certainly not as much as you would get
in say a 10 or 15 centimetre mattress.
But the benefit of a thinner mat like this
is the actual pack size of it
when it's going in your vehicle is far smaller
than a lot of the bigger mats in the market.
And they're also really well priced.
I think these bomber pads are a really good upgrade
from the original bomber pads that zempire had made
going back a while now.
And they offer the square sided sort of functionality
without quite the thickness of their more,
or their upper in mats and at a much more affordable price.
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at snowys.com.au where we have the lowest prices everyday.
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