 what these units do is they um heat or cool water i haven't personally slept with this unit that sounds kind of creepy doesn't it slip with it from a physical size i mean this is it's called the cube it's shaped like a cube hello it's alexander from alexfurgus.com today i've got another head-to-head comparison this is two products from the same company all right so on my right i have the first generation well i'm not necessarily the first generation the updated chili pad from chili technology and on my left i have the new within the last six 12 months or so well nine months uh the ula and so this is the second generation product from the original chili pad but the chili pad has been upgraded a few times so that's why it's not necessarily the first generation product and what it does what these units do is they um heat or cool water and then they pump this water through what looks like a mattress topper um and that goes on your bed and heats you up or cools you down depending on the environment you're in so i found these products the original chili pad a few years ago when i was living in australia and it is very hot there you get high humidity rates in summertime and i i run hot i'm always quite hot you know i'll be sweating even now it's by the way you can i'll put my article on how to boost deep sleep and lowering all these things i mentioned i'll put notes below so i've now used both i've been using this one for a couple weeks now here at summertime in new zealand i will be releasing an in-depth review on the ula i won't be doing an in-depth review on the chili pad but i am doing this head-to-head comparison piece i have also done emf readings on both these products um so there's videos on my youtube channel so have a play around on my channel and you should find them if you are passionate about emf i will touch on that so but anyway today what we're going to do is we're going to compare these products and help you figure out which which product you should buy if you are looking at buying one of these so the first thing the most obvious thing is price now being the new unit this is the more expensive price the chili pad i've got two prices here all right but what i've done i've got discount codes that i can share with you guys for the ula it is fergus 15 if erg us 15 that will save you 15 percent off the ula for the chili pad it is fergus 25 if erg us 25 chili pad for the half queen me the me is what i've got here um you know two feet wide it's just for you right here's the word me um that is after using discount code three hundred and seventy five dollars us okay the ula with the half queen me which comes with this mattress topper or pad um five ninety five all right so big price difference there you're talking what two hundred and twenty five dollar price difference so straight away people are looking at the chili pad thinking well that's that's a big big price even big benefit but we're going to go into the other reasons why um other reasons why the ula may be a better choice for you so um if you want to get the we option so that's two units and two pads or one big pad um with two hoses for the chili pad we queen uh seven hundred fifty dollars after using the coupon code and for the ula we queen one thousand two hundred dollars so you have five hundred dollar difference there it's huge i mean it's a big big difference the chili pad doesn't have any microwave like uh bluetooth or wi-fi the ula does but you only turn it on to sync to your app which i'll get so you don't really need to worry about that because it turns off anyway all right so the main thing you should be worried about is electric field and on that note electric field at a few inches out was zero with both these panels so not an issue so the only thing you need to worry about now is the magnetic field and i use my cornet electric smoke meter here which is only a couple hundred dollars but it's pretty accurate compared it to some like professional devices and it holds up really well i'll put a link to that below as well um and yeah it's just magnetic field now the chili pad comes on top it comes out on top here but only just uh pretty much at three feet you're you're in the green based on the building biology safe levels at four feet you're in the green so four feet distance now that means you can put this on the floor and you know like off beside your uh bedside table and um you're not going to be impacted by the output now these pads come with quite long hoses the ulla hose is 2.1 meters long or it's about eight feet or so the chili pad uh hose is slightly longer at 2.5 meters or 2.4 meters so if you are super paranoid about emf you know the chili pad is a better option because it has a slightly very slightly lower output plus it has the longer hose so you can put it further away the ulla has three fan options here and they market this as like a white noise feature you know you can bop the fan up and you get more of a white noise i basically hate white noise i can't stand it and the first one i had this i had it on boost mode which is the loudest and um i had to put your plugs in it would be nice and i figured out you can drop it down to silent mode silent mode on the ulla is the same sound level as the chili chili pad here okay chili pad only has one sound level one fan level so pretty much um both the same there uh this is probably a nicer sound this is not as smooth the sound right both of them have the same temperature range they go down to 55 degrees fahrenheit which is 13 degrees celsius right up to 46 uh right up to 115 degrees fahrenheit which is 46 degrees celsius um which is pretty cold now i remember the old one of these i had didn't get that cold you know it's why i ended up having two of them the new one um yeah very different and i mean this i had on the lowest setting one night in summertime and i woke up a few hours later and i was freezing like with two blankets on me i was like this is insane so i had to bump it up you can see the difference uh this one's actually insulated this one's just the hose on its own uh and the pad is different as well so it's got new fibers in it's got a water resistant base um i think the spacing and the internal tubes are exactly the same though so that may make this slightly more efficient at keeping it cooler uh and i'm sure being in your prior i'm sure this does have a better cooling function it's got a bit of bigger water reservoir as well so um you know there's more water to pump around so if it's really hot you know that heated water has to go back to the unit to cool down um the chili pad has a power consumption of 170 watts the ola 140 watts so if you are worried about like energy consumption you know because you're using it every night eight hours a night type thing then this is going to come out on top but 30 watt difference it's not a huge difference um you know like i guess if you're off grid or something like that then sure you know every little uh every wattage counts but most people aren't going to be worrying about that the chili pad here is four and a half kilos i'm not going to convert there to pounds uh the ola is 4.3 so this is slightly lighter um but not a big difference the big difference though on the size front is the highest this has a lower profile it's only 15 centimeters high this is much taller okay 19 centimeters high now they did this in the marketing this because it can fit under a lot more bed frames from a physical size i mean this is it's called the cube it's shaped like a cube this is around the rectangular looking unit you could travel with this in fact we know someone that does travel with their unit i mean four and a half kilos plus the mattress top are probably sort of very kilos you can very easily put this in a suitcase and um now the chili pad has three buttons power button hot cold all right when you turn it on the temperature comes on sorry when you turn it on the temperature comes on you can select the temperature you want colder hotter simple all right very very simple you set the temperature you want and then it will hold that temperature or not it also comes with a remote which is just an infrared remote with exactly the same thing three buttons hotter colder power and then the the screen up there will show the temperature just like the screen on there super simple to use the ola is a little bit more complex fancy if you look at it on the top you might not be able to see it's got the same three buttons power plus and minus in the screen but the ola doesn't have a remote instead it's got an iphone it so in here is bluetooth by holding down the power button for five seconds you enable the bluetooth function on here you can then sync this to your phone so like the chili pad if you just want to set the same temperature all season you turn it on set the temperature away you go it doesn't think turn it off in the morning you can actually schedule the temperature throughout the night down to the hour so why would you want to do this let's say let's say you uh you do a you finish work at seven o'clock you um and then you do you train in the in the evening you go to the gym in the evening or maybe have a sauna right but you know a hot core temperature body is going to impact deep sleep and it's middle summer and you don't have aircon and you want a great night's sleep right you might have that um you might have the ola down as low as possible you know what i said 13 degrees which is cold i mean you can't sleep at that temperature all night trust me i'm trying um you might have it down there at the start of the night right and then two three hours later you might have it come up to say 16 degrees which is 16 17 degrees is my sweet spot for the night right and then you might know that i don't know maybe you live in the desert or something and you know come three a.m. in the morning the place gets cold and it might have been 40 degrees during the day like really hot but then come through in the morning it's freezing outside uh and so you know once the time comes you know you don't need that unit on it will something like this you're stuck the same temperature all night yeah you can program it so then come to 3 a.m. that temperature might go up to like 18 degrees or 19 or 24 degrees it might warm you up you know you may go up to 40 degrees or something crazy so the pads they call them the hydro hydronic pads uh so the original chili pad yeah um it is a cotton holly blend um nothing fancy you know just i don't really know much about material but it's nothing amazing it's got these elastic straps pretty thin straps they go around your mattress uh and then like i said the the hose a long hose is an insulator or anything but um hey it does it does the job you can watch that as well which is great the new one with the ulla has thicker straps um wider straps as well good quality straps i guess that's what i'm saying and the mattress the the the pad feels very different it's very soft this is you know it's like new cotton sheets this is very very soft i haven't watched this uh and the bottom has a water resistant um fiber surface this one the chili pad i don't have the power plugs for this but it's got a blue led light you know the blue dials and um blue light is not great for sleep in fact in fact the suppressors melaton i've written about this in my articles over at elkswiggers.com so i mean if you turn this on before you go to bed not an issue but then if you come in and you adjust the dials their blue light is is impacting sleep this unit here doesn't use blue light i think it's like a wider light which still technically has blue light in it but it's not as intense as this like huge difference trust me like i'm big on the blue light okay like uh i'll research this i have like 12 different pairs of glasses so this is a big thing for me so um yeah big difference there uh also it's got like a dim mode so it will drop down a lot quicker as well however you can do it all through your phone you know wearing your glasses and sync it all up as well so um you know something to think about if you're in the market and you are about to spend kind of a thousand bucks on one of these it's it's little things like that you should know about right i haven't personally slept with this unit this one's kind of creepy doesn't it slip with it no no um i haven't used this on my bed because i've been testing this one out and this just turned up um but i have used the older one uh i mean it should work you know spec wise it's very similar from a cooling point of view uh so why would you go urla and why would you go chili pad which one should you choose i've made a few after going through all my notes i made a few recommendations urla why would you go urla over the chili pad if you've got a low bed and you want to put it under the bed and that 15 versus 19 centimeter different height differences is a game changer then simple you're going with the urla right um if you want the custom temperature scheduling i mean to be honest that is the main benefit the biggest benefit by far the fact that you can go in and program your temperature fluctuations overnight like it's pretty cool to be honest the warm wake mode again that's another nice plus but hey i wouldn't spend $500 just for that feature but it should impact your decision uh if you like the latest things and the latest technology and i know a lot of people do um you know you want the latest and greatest then go urla i mean it's got so many more bells and whistles doesn't it plus it looks you know sleek and modern this looks a bit clunky and old i guess because it is why would you go with the chili pad simple you're on a tight budget you know if you can't quite afford the urla uh you want the benefits of a cold bed or a warmer bed um and you want one of these devices but you can't afford the expense upon it i mean then you get a chili pad you're still getting all the great features you just don't get all the bells and whistles uh if you're super paranoid about emf then yes this one is slightly lower they're both both safe at three four feet though this one is slightly lower and it has the longer core host so you can put it further away from the head for instance um yeah maybe someone that they're very caught up on that and um in which case the chili pad is is the better option but you can use this without the iphone app all right it's got the same functions power on off increase decrease temperature i mean you don't need the app for it obviously you're not getting all those cool benefits with scheduling and whatnot but um you can uh actually scheduling that's one thing i remember i didn't think about i think you can schedule it so it will turn on automatically with the app i haven't tested that but i'm pretty sure it does that so that's that's also another big plus because you can schedule it so it comes on on le turns off automatically you get a work come home and it's already doing its thing it's another big plus um and then the final reason why you might go chili pad is you want the longer hose for your beard or bedroom or sit up you know maybe you're gonna put it i don't know in a student in your cupboard or something and that hose length needs to be over two meters in which case that extra 30 40 centimeters on the chili pad you know could be a game changer otherwise um yeah i hope this video has helped you make more of an informed decision and um you get the product that is best for your needs remember uh to use those discount codes fergus 15 for the ola 15 set off and fergus 25 for the chili pad you can try use them the other way around but they won't work i am affiliated with them if you use those codes i do get a little kickback that allows me to go out and purchase things like this and do the testing and reviews and help you i i only really um i only become affiliated with products that i use and recommend and um you know would want my friends my family to use be sure to check out my other videos and uh if you want to see the emf readings on these videos check out i will try put links below to them uh give me a thumbs up and you know you know it's alexviews.com check out my blog there's some cool stuff going on over there if you do buy one of these or you have been using one of these let me know your thoughts maybe i've missed something maybe there's something else like the readers should should know about all right sign it out bye