G'day guys, it's Ben from Snowys Outdoors here and today we're having a quick look at
the relatively new Zempire Megamat. So the Zempire Megamat Camp mats come in
both a single and a double size as well. When packed down, as you can see them
both here, the single is 70 centimetres long, 20 wide and 20 deep.
Weighs about 3.1 kilos. And the double, 65 long, 30 deep, 30 wide and weighs about
6.2 kilos. You see here they've been unrolled already, a couple of what we
prepared a little bit earlier. Now a single is 198 long, 68 wide and the double is
201 long and it's 132 wide. Now both these mats are 10 cm thick,
they've got the same thickness. Alright, so I've cleared off the table here, so we
can actually get one out and have a proper look at it. We've got one here,
the single Megamat, so basically that, to get it all set up and good to go,
you open the bag, pretty straightforward process, just to a drawstring on the
top. Bag pulls off over the top like this.
Pop that down there now you'll see at the moment there's a couple of straps on
here, so these are actually just to hold it all together, makes a lot easy for
carrying around. You can also use it to compress down at the very end when
you're packing up if you want to. But these just un-Velcro. Pop off like that
and the other one as well. Alright and then you simply roll your mat out, so you
can see here it's quite deflated. What we want to do is start inflating it so
you've got a valve at the very end here and you open that up. Now at the moment
you'll see it's actually it's, it's a dual-sided valve, so at the moment it's
on 'deflate only'. If you turn it the full 180, you've actually got it as
'inflate only', it's just allow air in to the mattress but no air will come out.
Now whilst that's inflating, we'll just have a quick look at some of the specs around
this. So the material on this one is a 40 denier ripstop top and the sides as well,
so it's quite stretchy, it's a super stretchy ripstop. So it will stretch it a
fair bit without actually ripping. And the bottom of it is a 150 denier
Poly Oxford, as well, so it's quite strong. That will go nice on the bottom of
your tent floor.
When this fully inflates, as I mentioned before, it comes out to a
10 cm mat, so you can see it actually packs down a fair bit. And the
reason it packs down is so small, opens up so big is because it's got a really good
quality self-inflating cross-court open cell foam inside. It's really comfy, it
makes it nice and warm during the winter time as well, and also makes for a really
soft bed. So you'll see here that it's almost fully self-inflated already,
it's only taken around about a minute or so, not even. Now for some people that
like to have a little bit more firmness to their mattress, you can add some
extra air to this. It doesn't come with any pump or anything similar and you
can use a pump on it lightly if you want to but I always find with mine that a
couple of breaths, maybe half a dozen at the absolute most is always more than
enough to get this up to a nice firm mattress, so just on the end, you
just give it a couple of blows.
(breathing noises)
Now some people can be a little bit hesitant
about blowing into their mattress because you do have some moisture in
your breath and it is a foam inside but the foam inside the Zempire Megamat is
actually an antibacterial foam, so it doesn't allow any moisture build-up
inside it, which does mean that you can use your mouth to inflate it a little bit. Enough not
to worry about any sort of moisture buildup inside your mattress.
So, packing up the Zempire Megamat is much the same as setting it up, just in
reverse obviously, so we've got our bag and our straps ready to go when needed
and what we do is we open up the valve, we've turned it around so it's no longer
'inflate only' but we turn it around to the 'deflate only' side and this will stop
any air from getting back into the mattress again. Now from there we supply some
pressure on it, you might wish to lie on it, you can just start rolling it, however
you want to do it. You push all the air out and it will help deflate it right down,
making it easier to roll up at the end. So once you feel like you got the mat
sufficiently deflated, you can then start to roll it up. Remember to keep
it nice and tight, push all the air at the end as you go and then you'll have a
nice compact packed down mat at the end. So you grab it at the bottom and
it's like any other camp mat or anything else you might be rolling up,
you just start at the bottom and off you go.
Now once you've got it all rolled up and good to go, obviously you just close the
valve over again to keep it nice and secure in there and then you grab your
straps. So you wrap your straps around through the loop and back over itself
and this just helps you to keep it nice and compressed and easy to put
back in the bag again. Slide it in over the top.
And you're good to go. Now you'll see there that I did a pretty shotty job at
rolling that up, I've not rolled it up very well. There's still plenty of air left in
there and it still fits in the bag quite comfortably, so these bags are more than
enough to fit, to fit in even if you haven't rolled it in very well, so the
packing down is always quite easy. So that's pretty much it when it comes to
the Zempire Megamat. Now, it's an absolutely great value mat, there's
plenty on the market at the moment. This one's an absolute is steal for the price
that it is and the quality of it's right up there with some of the top name
brands that you might already know of. So if you want to grab one of these or find
out some more information, just jump online at
snowys.com.au
where we've got fast, free delivery to most of Australia.
Until next time, happy camping.