﻿{"id":8019,"date":"2015-11-20T16:30:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T16:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/?p=8019"},"modified":"2023-03-17T11:41:54","modified_gmt":"2023-03-17T01:11:54","slug":"coleman-air-bed-weight-ratings-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/coleman-air-bed-weight-ratings-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Coleman Air Bed Weight Ratings Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How much weight can air bed take if an air bed could take weight?<\/p>\n<p>As a general rule, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/?lbc=snowys&amp;method=and&amp;p=Q&amp;ts=custom&amp;uid=193587277&amp;w=airbed&amp;af=brand%3Acoleman\">Coleman air mattresses<\/a> don&#8217;t come with weight ratings, an exception to this is the <a href=\"https:\/\/camping.snowys.com.au\/search?w=aerobed\">Aerobed range<\/a> which are now stamped with ratings dependent on the size of the bed.<\/p>\n<p>But there is a distinct lack of weight bearing guidelines when it comes to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/?w=quickbed\">Coleman Quickbed<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/?w=coleman%20dura%20sleep\">Dura Sleep mattress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13618\" src=\"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Coleman-XL-Single-Quickbed-Airbed.jpg\" alt=\"Coleman XL Single Quickbed Airbed\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Coleman-XL-Single-Quickbed-Airbed.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Coleman-XL-Single-Quickbed-Airbed-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Coleman-XL-Single-Quickbed-Airbed-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>What are the weight ratings of Coleman air mattresses<\/h2>\n<p>The question has therefore been raised a number of times: <em>What are the weight ratings on Coleman air mattresses?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In the interest of keeping our customers informed, we embarked on a widespread research project. We armed a research monkey with pen and paper, phone and 25 minutes of research time to come up with an answer.<\/p>\n<p>The data produced from this project, despite being relatively dull does instil confidence in the Coleman air bed range.<\/p>\n<h2>Our contact at Coleman HQ had this to say:<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;We do test our airbeds to withstand up to 300kg (based on queen size) however don&#8217;t claim this on the packaging. The testing we focus on is more around pressure test \/ leak test \/ weld test etc. as well as weight testing.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Further to this, a more official response was:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;All Coleman airbeds are 100% tested &#8211; fully inflated for 24 hours, weight tested (static and dynamic up to 300kg) as well as pressure tested. We are so confident in the performance of our Quickbeds we provide a &#8216;guaranty not to leak.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hqGSeyWQF2k\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Let&#8217;s do the maths&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>Now I&#8217;m no physics genius. This is the first time I have had to recall <a href=\"https:\/\/csep10.phys.utk.edu\/astr161\/lect\/history\/newton3laws.html\">Newton&#8217;s laws of motion<\/a> since high school, but I&#8217;m pretty sure the formula goes something like this:<\/p>\n<p>300kg of weight is roughly equal to 3000 newtons of force, and let&#8217;s assume we have a camper weighing in at 80kg.<\/p>\n<p>Newton&#8217;s second law states that: force = mass x acceleration<\/p>\n<p>3000 = 80 x acceleration, which, if my memory serves me right, is jumbled around like this:<\/p>\n<p>3000 \/ 80 = acceleration, which means our 80kg camper would need to be accelerating at 37.5metres per second squared towards the airbed to generate 300kg of force.<\/p>\n<h2>Does anyone else want to weigh in?<\/h2>\n<p>Now I could be wrong here, so I will not be offended if anyone with a sound knowledge of physics can jump in to better explain this.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m confident in saying that it is going to take some serious physical activity on a Coleman air mattress to find its weight limitations!<\/p>\n<div class='watch-action'><div class='watch-position align-left'><div class='action-like'><a class='lbg-style1 like-8019 jlk' href='javascript:void(0)' data-task='like' data-post_id='8019' data-nonce='7b06b88d42' rel='nofollow'><img class='wti-pixel' src='https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wti-like-post\/images\/pixel.gif' title='Liked it' \/><span class='lc-8019 lc'>2<\/span><\/a><\/div><\/div> <div class='status-8019 status align-left'><\/div><\/div><div class='wti-clear'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How much weight can air bed take if an air bed could take weight? There is a distinct lack of weight bearing guidelines when it comes to a Coleman Quickbed or Dura Sleep mattress. So what are the weight ratings on Coleman air mattresses?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":13620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1582,1585],"tags":[534,196,497,445],"class_list":["post-8019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear","category-gear-sleeping-gear","tag-air-beds","tag-camping","tag-camping-gear","tag-coleman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8019"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53473,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8019\/revisions\/53473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowys.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}