Kelty 4082021109 vs AquaQuest DEF-SQ-OD

Buy the Kelty Noah's Tarp 9, manufacturer part 4082021109, ASIN B002E1TRHK, when you want the tarp whose size cell says 108 by 108 inches and whose color cell says Grey/Putty, and when you will ignore a description that also prints a 114-inch tarp and a 192-inch tarp on the same ASIN. Buy the AquaQuest Defender, manufacturer part DEF-SQ-OD, ASIN B07VBJH5HV, when you want the olive-drab nylon tarp whose features say a finished size of 9 feet 7 inches by 9 feet 7 inches, 92 square feet, 19 tie-outs, and 3.3 pounds, and when you will notice that the size cell still says 10 by 10 feet. The product-dimensions cell says 115 by 115 inches. One hundred fifteen inches is 9 feet 7 inches, not 10 feet. The size cell and the feature do not agree. Buy the feature's finished size if you are buying the fabric. Buy the size cell only if you like being disappointed by seven inches a side.

Short version. The camping-tarp roundup is the wider fly, footprint, and kitchen-roof list. A GRAYL and a Platypus are the water you drink under the fly, not the fly. A Benchmade 535 and a Spyderco C223GP are the knives. A Fenix PD35R and a Streamlight 88082 are the lights after the tarp is up. Poles are not in either of these tarp boxes. The cards say so in their own words.

The Kelty card is ASIN B002E1TRHK. The brand is Kelty. The model is 4082021109. The UPC is 727880016876. The color cell says Grey/Putty. The material cell says Polyester. The size cell says 108 by 108 inches. The product-dimensions cell repeats 108 inches by 108 inches. The features say a lightweight shelter, 68D polyester, taped seams, reinforced guy-out points, and adjustable corner guylines, and they list boating, camping, backpacking, and events as uses. The description then prints three tarps. For 108 by 108 it says minimum weight 1 pound 7 ounces, packaged weight 1 pound 13 ounces, floor area 81 square feet, and a packaged diameter of 5 by 23 inches. For 114 by 114 it prints another minimum weight. For 192 by 192 it prints another. The size cell is 108. The other two blocks are how this listing teaches you a tarp you may not receive. If the stuff sack is the 16-foot Noah's Tarp, it is a different ASIN, and the 192-inch block on this page is not a bonus.

Kelty's current product page for Noah's Tarp 9 says the fly is 68D poly with an 800-millimeter coating, floor area 81 square feet, length and width 108 inches, and a packaged weight of 2 pounds, with packaged dimensions of 10 by 9 by 3 inches. The Amazon description's packaged weight for the 108-inch tarp is 1 pound 13 ounces, and its packaged diameter is 5 by 23 inches. Two pounds and 1 pound 13 ounces are not the same packaged weight. A roll of 5 by 23 inches is not a brick of 10 by 9 by 3. The 68D polyester agrees. The 800-millimeter coating is on Kelty's page and is not an Amazon cell in the extract this page is using. Poles are sold separately on both. The Amazon description says the 108-inch floor is 81 square feet. A 9-by-9-foot square is 81 square feet. That arithmetic holds for the size cell. It does not hold for the 192-inch block, and you should not cite 81 square feet for a tarp that is not 108 inches.

The AquaQuest card is ASIN B07VBJH5HV. The brand is AquaQuest. The model is DEF-SQ-OD. The color cell says Olive Drab. The material cell says Nylon. The size cell says 10 by 10 feet. The product-dimensions cell says 115 inches by 115 inches. The item-thickness cell says 0.12 millimeters. The features say 20,000 millimeters waterproof, heat-taped seams, 70D nylon with a dual coating, reinforced webbing, bar-tacked tie-outs, a finished size of 9 feet 7 inches by 9 feet 7 inches, 92 square feet, 19 tie-outs, 3.3 pounds, a stuff sack, and a lifetime warranty. Ninety-two square feet is the feature's coverage number. A true 10-by-10 is 100 square feet. The feature is telling you the finished tarp is smaller than the size cell, and the 115-inch dimension agrees with 9 feet 7 inches because 9 times 12 is 108 and 7 inches makes 115. The size cell is the marketing square. The feature is the hemmed square. Buy the hem.

Waterproof numbers are not the same kind of number. Kelty's page says 800 millimeters on the 68D poly. AquaQuest's feature says 20,000 millimeters on 70D nylon. Eight hundred and twenty thousand are both hydrostatic-head claims, and they are not on the same document. The Kelty Amazon features say taped seams and do not print 800. The AquaQuest feature prints 20,000. If you only read Amazon features, you have a coating number for the Defender and you do not have one for the Noah's Tarp. Do not invent 800 millimeters as an Amazon cell. Cite Kelty's page. Do not treat 20,000 millimeters as a statement that the Defender can be a boat. It is a tarp rating. The item-thickness cell of 0.12 millimeters is a thin number next to a 70D claim. A denier is a yarn weight, not a thickness in millimeters. The card prints both and does not show the conversion. Leave them as two cells.

Weight is the other split, and it is cleaner if you keep the sources apart. The Kelty description's 108-inch line says a minimum weight of 1 pound 7 ounces. Kelty's page says a packaged weight of 2 pounds and does not, in the lines quoted here, repeat 1 pound 7 ounces. The AquaQuest feature says 3.3 pounds. Three point three pounds is more than 1 pound 7 ounces and more than 2 pounds. The Defender is the heavier tarp on those figures, and the Noah's Tarp is the lighter one, and you still have to say which Kelty weight you mean. Minimum weight is the fabric. Packaged weight includes the sack and whatever else the maker stuffed in. The AquaQuest feature says the 3.3 pounds includes the way they stated the spec and that a stuff sack is included. It does not split minimum from packaged. Do not subtract a sack you have not weighed.

Who should buy the Noah's Tarp, and who should buy the Defender?

Buy 4082021109 if you want the 108-inch size cell, the grey/putty color, the 68D polyester feature, and the lighter description weight, and if you will ignore the 114-inch and 192-inch blocks and you will not call 1 pound 7 ounces the same thing as Kelty's 2-pound packaged weight. Buy DEF-SQ-OD if you want olive drab, the 20,000-millimeter feature, 19 tie-outs, the 3.3-pound feature, and the lifetime-warranty sentence, and if you will shop the 9-foot-7 finished size instead of the 10-by-10 size cell. Buy the Kelty if the pack weight is the reason you own a tarp instead of a tent. Buy the Defender if the coating number and the tie-out count are the reason you are standing in a wind that the 800-millimeter page did not mention.

Do not buy either tarp as a tent. There is no floor and no bug net on these cards. Do not buy the Kelty's 192-inch block and expect it in this ASIN. Do not buy a 10-by-10 Defender and then blame the hem when the tape says 9 feet 7 inches. The feature warned you. Do not forget poles. Kelty says they are separate. The Defender feature lists a stuff sack, not a pole. Trees, paddles, and trekking poles are the field solution, and none of them are in the product-information table.

What is 4082021109 actually for?

This card is a 108-by-108-inch polyester tarp, model 4082021109, ASIN B002E1TRHK, grey/putty, 68D, taped seams, with the 81-square-foot line attached to that size in the description. Use it as a fly over a hammock, a kitchen, or a boat cockpit only in the sense the feature lists those places as uses. The feature does not print a wind speed. An 800-millimeter coating, if you are citing Kelty's page, is a light rain claim next to a 20,000-millimeter feature. It is still a taped-seam tarp, which is the Amazon feature you can cite without leaving the card. The corner guylines are attached, in the feature's words. The description's packaged size depends on which source you believe. Stuff it and measure the sack you received before you plan a pocket.

The 16-foot Noah's Tarp is the 192-inch description block and, on a different listing, a different product. Do not pitch a 9-foot tarp and call it group shade for twenty. Kelty's page says the family comes in sizes for groups of 1 to 20. That sentence is the family, not this ASIN's floor. Eighty-one square feet is a small roof. Two people and a stove fit if the pitch is low and the wind is not the story. A kitchen for eight does not. The camping-tarp roundup is where the bigger flies are discussed. This page is the 9-foot card against the Defender card.

What is DEF-SQ-OD actually for?

This card is an olive-drab nylon tarp, model DEF-SQ-OD, ASIN B07VBJH5HV, whose features say 70D, 20,000 millimeters, 19 tie-outs, 3.3 pounds, and a finished size of 9 feet 7 inches square. Use the finished size to cut the ridge line. A ridge cut for 10 feet will leave the hem slack or the tie-out short. The 19 tie-outs are the feature that lets you pitch it low when the wind turns. The Kelty feature does not give you a count to compare. More tie-outs are not automatically a stronger tarp. They are more places to put a line, and the feature is willing to count them. The lifetime warranty is the feature's last claim. It does not say a burn hole from a stove is covered. Keep the stove out from under the coating the same way you keep any stove out from under any fly. The card does not print a stove clearance.

Olive drab is a color cell that is actually a color. Grey/Putty is the Kelty color that is actually a color. One Color and Aluminum were the cookset cards' failure. These two tarps, on color, are the clearer pair. The photograph of the Defender on this page shows an olive fly. The Kelty photograph shows a light fly. If the sack you receive is a different color, the cell and the photo have diverged and the cell is what you ordered. Thickness at 0.12 millimeters is the odd cell. Do not cite it as the reason the tarp is stronger than 68D polyester. The card does not make that comparison. Denier and coating are the comparison the features support, and only the Defender feature includes the coating number.

How do you pitch them without mixing the two cards?

Put a ridge between two trees or two poles you brought. Stake or tie the corners, then the side tie-outs if you have them. The Kelty feature says the corner lines are adjustable and attached. The Defender feature says 19 tie-outs and does not say the lines are in the bag. Bring cord for the Defender unless the box proves you wrong. Bring poles for both. A low pitch sheds wind and sheds less rain at the edge. A high pitch sheds rain and catches wind. Neither card prints a pitch angle. The 81-square-foot Kelty and the 92-square-foot Defender are the areas the documents print. The Defender's extra area is the finished 9-foot-7 square against a 9-foot square, which is about 11 square feet, not the 19 square feet you would get if the size cell's 10-by-10 were real. Do the arithmetic on the finished size.

Seams are taped on both feature lists. A taped seam is not a floor. Water runs off a tarp and onto whatever you put at the edge, including a sleeping bag. Pull the bag in. Guy the windward side first. The knife page is how you cut a length of cord. The light page is how you see the knot. This page is which square of fabric you are holding, and which cell lied about the square.

What actually fails on these two cards?

The Kelty card fails when the 114-inch or 192-inch description block is received as this ASIN. It fails when 1 pound 7 ounces and Kelty's 2-pound packaged weight are called one number. It fails when 5-by-23 packaged inches and 10-by-9-by-3 inches are called one sack. It fails when 800 millimeters is called an Amazon cell. It fails when 81 square feet is cited for a different size in the same description. It fails when poles are assumed included.

The Defender card fails when the 10-by-10 size cell is used to cut a ridge line. It fails when 100 square feet is used instead of the feature's 92. It fails when 0.12 millimeters is converted into a denier. It fails when 20,000 millimeters is read as a hull. It fails when the lifetime warranty is read as coverage for a stove burn. It fails when 3.3 pounds is split into a minimum weight the feature did not split. It fails when the Kelty's attached guylines are assumed to be in the Defender's stuff sack.

What is this comparison not?

This is not a tent review. This is not the 16-foot Noah's Tarp. This is not every Defender size. DEF-SQ-OD is the olive square on this card. A rectangle with a different model is a different tarp. This is not a price quote. Use the buttons. This is not a pole review. This is not a claim that 20,000 millimeters is twenty-five times more waterproof than 800 millimeters in the rain you will actually sit through. Hydrostatic head is a lab claim. The cards do not print a field test. The numbers are still worth quoting, with the page attached, because one of them is on an Amazon feature and the other is not.

So which tarp should you buy?

Buy the Kelty if you want part 4082021109, ASIN B002E1TRHK, the 108-inch cell that matches the dimension cell, 68D polyester, and the lighter description weight, and if you will throw out the other sizes in the description and name the Kelty page when you cite 2 pounds or 800 millimeters. Buy the AquaQuest if you want part DEF-SQ-OD, ASIN B07VBJH5HV, olive drab, 19 tie-outs, 3.3 pounds, 20,000 millimeters, and the 9-foot-7 finished size, and if you will throw out the 10-by-10 size cell. Buy neither if you wanted poles in the box or a single packaged weight both makers print the same way. The finished square is the decision. The Defender size cell is the warning.

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