I see a real need for a better heated blanket. Mine doesn't heat very much, so I got out the instruction book and it admits that as a fact. Then I started surfing the net and found that that seems to be the number one complaint of others as well. Evidentally the manufactures are afraid of fire, so they don't design them to heat up very much because of that fear. My dad said that years ago it was common for them to catch fire and some deaths were even attributed to them. He said also that as an alternative, they used to have electric blankets that employed small tubes sewn into the blanket. These tubes had some kind of liquid in them that was heated electrically, then circulated thru the tubes, via a pump. To me this would be an answer to the problem. You could have it really warm, without the risk of an electrical short. In the past, some inventions came too early. Examples are the telephone answering machine, the microwave oven, and Windows for computers. After their invention, there was no market for them until years lager. Maybe this is also true for the tube blanket. ---Anthony
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