OK, first try with the Eeieer heated socks today. Charged the batteries up on day of receipt (Friday) so I was ready to go.
Few comments about the fit first, I bought the XL size recommended for UK 8-12.5, i'm a 10 and wouldn't really fancy putting them on bigger feet. They are a snug, but comfortable fit on my feet when worn over a pair of normal socks, which I intend to do to keep them cleaner. Due to the inevitable extra faff required to use these, I put them on before leaving home with the batteries in situ, but not connected. The photos give an idea of fit when used with a size 10 neoprene welly, and I've tried to show the amount of extra room I had around my calf, doesn't look and wasn't a great deal, but seemingly enough. The battery sits on the side of the socks at the top. Having worn them now, I can say they did not dig in or interfere with my boots in any way (I did think they might). They were comfy to walk in, although I visited a local pond today and the walk each way was less than 200 yards. Don't see walking further being an issue tbh.
So onto use. Been a cold wet day today, air temp on the car was around 3/4 degrees. As I had my Snowline wellies on, I decided to set the temp of the socks to the middle setting. This is important as I think once connected and on, and trousers tucked into wellies and oversuit on, it would be a right pain in the arse to change the setting. Not impossible, but you'd probably do more harm than good stripping down to adjust the temp. Dead easy to use. Plug power packs in, long press red button to turn on and then press to toggle between red (hottest), amber (middle), green (coolest) settings. Long press to turn off. Very easy.
I fished from midday 12pm until about 3.30pm today, and by the time I was back at the car it was nearly 4pm so we're talking 4 hours use. I expected the battery lights (4 small blue ones) to be at least halfway down, to my surprise there were still 3 lit, suggesting they would keep on going considerably longer. But did they keep my feet warm?
Well yes. On a normal 4 degree day I would at some point feel the cold in my toes wearing wellies with two pair of socks and have to get up for a wander about, I didn't need to do that today and my toes stayed warm. It's a very odd feeling really, as they don't 'feel' incredibly warm as such, but the fact my feet didn't get cold today tells me they worked, and you could feel the warmth from the socks more at some points now and then (I guess when pressure points were changed as I sat).
I'll keep reporting back but from the first use I'm very optimistic these will be a great help
End of my outing
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