Questions, answered.

Both come as a pair, and both dry the inside and outside of your wetsuit and booties at the same time.

• Original runs on USB-C, is nearly silent and has your suit DRY overnight. $88.
• Heated plugs into a wall outlet and adds warm air, so your suit is DRY in 1 to 4 hours. $178.

Go with Heated if any of these is true:

• You dry your gear somewhere cool or humid.
• Your suit is 5/4 mm or thicker.
• You need your suit DRY in a few hours, for a second session the same day.
• You want a warm suit and warm booties before you paddle out.

Otherwise Original is the one: indoor drying, once-a-day sessions, 4/3 mm suits and thinner, and travel on a USB-C battery bank. Not sure? Take the 30-second quiz.

• Original: a pair of drying units, two USB-C cables and a USB-C wall adapter. Works with any USB power source and any USB-C cable.
• Heated: a hard-wired pair of units, a 4-position timer with built-in electrical safety, a North American power cord and a bootie & glove base.

Anyone tired of pulling on a cold, wet suit. Daily surfers and dawn patrol crews, cold-water surfers, families with a rack of wetsuits, and divers, swimmers, triathletes, paddlers, foilers, kiters and windsurfers.

DRY in 1 to 4 hours, depending on the thickness of your suit and the room you dry in. That's fast enough to surf this morning and paddle back out this afternoon.

No. Heated uses warm air, not hot air. It took many rounds of development to get the airflow, drying rate and temperature right: the moving air does most of the work, and the warmth speeds it up.

We've run dozens of drying cycles on 20 wetsuit brands, including two of the world's largest. We've seen no accelerated wear: no glue failures, no jersey delamination and no seam damage.

Not even close. A pair of Heated units puts out about a tenth of the heat of a standard hair dryer: 170 W for the pair, against roughly 1,500 W for a hair dryer. Heated relies on steady airflow through the whole suit, not a blast of hot air.

Yes, that's what it's built for. Heated has three layers of safety built in:

• Thermal protection keeps the warm air from running too hot. If a fan stalls or the airflow gets blocked, a thermal cutoff limits the heat.
• Timed shutoff: pick a time and walk away. When the time is up, Heated turns itself off.
• GFCI electrical protection cuts the power if it detects a fault. TEST and RESET buttons sit on the controller.

The controller has four settings: 30 minutes, 1 hour, 3 hours and 5 hours. Press the orange button to pick one. When the time is up, Heated turns off.

• Booties: 30 minutes to 1 hour.
• The thickest, lined and hooded suits: 5 hours.

Most other suits fall in between.

Yes. Drying a suit in hours instead of overnight takes a lot more air moving through it, and moving more air makes more sound. It's a steady hum, about like a white-noise machine.

1. Rinse your suit thoroughly, then let it drip for 30 minutes to an hour, until it's down to a few drips a minute.
2. Fold your suit at the waist over a bar or hanger.
3. Set wetsuit mode. Drop one unit in an ankle and one in a wrist.
4. Plug the controller into a wall outlet, pick a time and walk away.

For booties and gloves, twist to bootie mode and use the bootie & glove base.

Yes. Run Heated before you suit up and you'll pull on a warm wetsuit and warm booties instead of cold ones.

A standard wall outlet. The controller works on 120 V and 240 V, so it runs almost anywhere in the world.

This first run ships with a North American power cord. Outside North America, pick up a figure-8 power cord (IEC C7) with your country's plug from a local electronics store. It plugs straight into the controller. Not sure what to buy? Ask us.

Often, yes, and it's a great way to warm your suit on the drive to the break. Here's the math to check your vehicle.

What Heated needs: 120 V and 170 W for the pair. If you're running it from the 12 V side through an inverter, the inverter loses about 10 to 15% in the conversion, so plan on about 200 W. That's roughly 15 amps at 12 V.

• Built-in AC outlet: check the watt rating in your owner's manual or next to the outlet. Many trucks and SUVs have 400 W outlets, and EVs with vehicle-to-load (V2L) supply far more. Rated lower? Give it a try anyway. If the outlet can't keep up, its overload protection simply switches it off. Unplug Heated and check your manual to reset it.
• Add-on inverter: choose a pure sine wave inverter rated 300 W or more, wired directly to the vehicle battery.
• Cigarette-lighter socket: most are fused at 10 to 15 amps, about 120 to 180 W at 12 V. That's below the 200 W an inverter needs to draw, so running Heated from a lighter circuit is unlikely to work.

Keep the engine running (or your EV switched on) so you don't drain the battery.

Want to dry off-grid without an inverter? Original runs on any USB-C battery pack.

Heated is a limited first run. We anticipate shipping within 7 days, with free US shipping. You can cancel any time before it ships.

DRY overnight. Pick a warm, dry spot, 68°F (20°C) or warmer. Drying time depends on the room, and on the thickness, size and lining of your suit.

Yes. Quiet is on purpose: Original is built for drying indoors, overnight, in your home. We track moisture to the gram on our own test rigs, and for ambient-air drying a slow, steady fan beats a loud one. There's one fan speed, tuned for drying, battery life and near-silence.

Not for indoor, overnight drying in a warm, dry room. If you dry somewhere cool or humid, or need your suit DRY in a few hours, that's what Heated is for.

Plug it into the included USB-C wall adapter, or any USB power source with any USB-C cable. A pair draws just 1 watt, so on the road a handheld USB-C battery pack runs a pair for up to 100 hours.

Use the bank's USB-C port. Original draws so little power that many banks switch off their USB-A port after a minute or two, the way they do with a fully charged phone.

No. A pair of Originals draws about 1 watt. A hair dryer draws around 1,500. Original uses no heat and gentle airflow. The only thing they share is a fan.

Yes. Original runs on 5 V USB power. The fan blades sit inside the housing, but keep loose hair away from the fan.

Definitely. It's light and compact, and the units nest together to pack even smaller. Plenty of customers take it on surf trips or run it in the van: a handheld USB-C battery pack runs a pair for up to 100 hours.

SURFDRY moves air through the arms, legs and torso of your suit. Fresh air flows in, picks up moisture from inside the neoprene and carries it out, so the inside and outside of your suit dry at the same time. No more flipping your suit halfway through.

After a thorough rinse, let your suit drip for 30 minutes to an hour, until it's down to a few drips a minute. Then fold it at the waist over a bar or hanger, set wetsuit mode, and put one unit in an ankle and one in a wrist. Don't hang your suit from the shoulders: most wetsuit makers warn that it stretches the suit.

A wetsuit has several openings, so air can flow in one end and out another. A bootie or glove has only one. Bootie mode opens vents on the unit (you'll see orange inside) so the damp air has a way out.

No. The nozzle steps down in diameter, so the seal sits unstretched at the narrow end while the wider part grips the neoprene above it. Push each unit all the way in. In all our testing, we've found no permanent stretching on any suit.

Yes. We've tested SURFDRY on 20 wetsuit brands, from 2 mm summer suits to 6 mm winter suits. It works with nearly any full suit. Suits with both short arms and short legs can be tricky, depending on how wide the arm and leg openings are.

Yes. Use bootie mode for booties and gloves. Hooded suits dry along with the rest of the suit. A separate hood can be dried on its own with a rubber band to hold the unit in place.

Yes. Customers dry hiking shoes, running shoes, ski boots, bags and more. If it's damp and hard to dry, SURFDRY can probably help.

Indoors in a warm, dry, well-ventilated room works best. Avoid small closed spaces like a shower stall. Drying in a cool garage? Some customers set up next to the water heater, or bring the suit inside once it stops dripping. Heated is built for cooler spots.

Yes. Dry out of the sun. Check the dew point in your weather app: if the air temperature gets within about 5°F of the dew point, move your gear somewhere warm indoors.

No. SURFDRY isn't designed to be submerged. Rinse your gear thoroughly, let it drip for 30 minutes to an hour (no more than a few drips a minute), then put the units in.

No. Water running down the suit stays on the outside of the unit. We tested this hard, including weeks in a sealed high-humidity chamber. Everything except the fan is sealed, and the fan's electronics carry a moisture-resistant coating. That goes for Original and Heated.

Air takes the easiest way out, which is usually the neck. Pinch the neck closed with a chip clip and the air will flow out through the other wrist.

Something is pinching the airflow. Thick and fur-lined suits hold a lot of water, and the heavy neoprene can fold shut. Pull a loose gather into the suit wherever it's pinched, including at the arm and leg next to the unit, until you feel a little air coming out opposite SURFDRY.

Original ships from warehouses across the US. Most orders in the continental US arrive in 1 to 5 days. Around the year-end holidays, delivery times vary more. Heated: we anticipate shipping within 7 days.

Yes, shipping is free in the continental US.

Yes, Original and Heated ship to most countries. Enter your address at checkout to see shipping options for your country. Ordering Heated outside North America? You'll need a local power cord: see What power does Heated need?

60-day returns: send it back in its original condition and packaging. If it's a defect or our mistake, we cover return shipping. Contact us to start a return.

Every unit carries a 180-day warranty against manufacturer defects, from the date you buy. If something's not working, contact us. We'll help you troubleshoot, and if we can't fix it, we'll send you a replacement.

Yes, any time before it ships.