"harry" wrote in message
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On Wednesday, 22 November 2017 16:59:44 UTC, Capitol wrote:
Tried to buy a new single electric blanket for granddaughter. Total
failure. It seems that all the current products have a life of 2 years
and have been afflicted with auto shut off after 10 hours and are low
temperature only. The customer ratings are 2* out of 5 and the customer
service seems to be non existent. I bought a couple of US superking
electric blankets a few years back and these were total crap in terms of
heat output and have been scrapped. I went back to the old monagram
blanket and added a panel in the middle to make it fit the bed. Maybe
Dyson can build a product that works. I won't hold my breath!

They killed lots of people.
That's why you can't get one.

We bought an electric blanket a few years ago which has two separate "his
and hers" panels so the two sides of the bed can be heated to different
temperatures. The heating elements are fine, but the controllers which plug
into the mains are total crap: so far two of them have failed, either
because the control electronics failed or because all the separate wires in
the plug that is plugged into the blanket pulled out of the metal terminals.
As with so many things, the plug was heat-sealed shut instead of having
screws, and there was no pinout available as to which wire connects to which
pin.

After the second failure, I found that the importer in this country had gone
out of business and ceased to exist, and the only contact information for
this brand that can be found online was the importer, not the original
manufacturer.

We now have one working controller (I'm kicking myself for not ordering more
replacements when I replaced the first one that failed) so only one side of
the blanket is usable.