Originally Posted By: mlord
Probably works like the soldering station here or something. I often forget to turn it off, but it detects "stability" and turns itself off after half an hour or so.

Or maybe they have a capacitance sensing wire woven in, and if it doesn't change (nobody moving about in bed) then it figures nobody is in bed.

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mark, Doug,

I shouldn't make a claim about "all" electric blankets as I can only really go on the basis of the two I have owned since ~1990. There is a UL 964 standard for these in the US, but I can't tell if it mandates a shutoff. Anyhow, the one I have on my boat turns off after a while and it won't turn on just by plugging it in (you have to press a button) so it couldn't be used as I did way back when to heat bed up in advance of arrival on scene.

I see there is even an "Electric Blanket Institute" but not much info.
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