Toasty warm again - new USB heated vest - first use at dialysis

This is the vest I purchased from eBay AU. Looking very stylish there in my pjs. ;) I got the large size and it seems to fit well. This vest isn't very long. 

VMFORN USB Heated Vest

The control panel (blue) looks a little 'star trek' like and lights up to indicate a working state.

The heat panels are sewn into the vest, with the USB plug end coming out a hole in the left pocket. This vest is able to be washed in this state. Hmmm, sounds strange, I'll provide an update once I put it through the washing machine.

There are two front pockets, they are quite small. A rectangular shape power bank just fits in the pocket but the pocket can't be closed. This is a small downside to the vest, I will look for a more suitable size powerbank (square?) so I can close the pocket and not worry about the powerbank slipping out.

Heated vest control panel

The control panel has two buttons. One button controls how many heat panels are operating, from a choice of 2, 6, or, 8. The other button is for the heat setting from a choice of low, medium and high.

The vest gets very warm on the highest heat setting, so warm, I needed to drop down to low/med a few times. I'm still experimenting with how the vest can best work.

I have noticed that the two front heat panels sit under the pockets of the vest. One of the pockets gets really warm due to the powerbank being active in there.

The smaller Heller battery (from the Heller heated vest), fits perfectly in the pocket. As the Heller battery has its own controls for heat settings, while it worked with this vest, it wasn't perfect. The control panel would flicker quite a lot when hooked up to the Heller battery. I won't be using the Heller battery with this vest again.

Apparently this vest can run off a USB port, for that to work, one would need a USB extension cord because the cord from the heating elements via the pocket - is not that long.

Like the Heller heated vest, the USB cord on this vest - is pretty flimsy - and it has the potential to break easily after repeated use.

I'm thinking to reinforce this wire with heat shrink plastic or maybe some gaffa tape. If I don't do this, I think it will break, just like the Heller vest.

So far I'm very happy with the purchase, I'm comfortable at haemodialysis again. For around $61 AUD and a powerbank (I already had) - this is well worth the expense.

As time goes on, I'll post additional updates about using this vest. I'll definitely include an update on how washing went.