Quilted Mattress Pad w/ Dual Controllers

I bought this Sunbeam heated mattress pad in Dec 2020 and it’s now Aug 2023, so have had and used it for a couple seasons now. Overall it’s ok. It heats nicely and keeps us toasty on cold nights. You have to find the perfect low heat setting though so you don’t wake up in a puddle of sweat. Seriously.. don’t fall asleep with it on high heat, you’ll find yourself unpleasantly drenched. The heat is really great when your back and legs are sore, much like how nice those small therapeutic heating pads are. Unfortunately you can feel the wires under your fitted sheet when you lie on it but it’s not too bad. The power plug-in connection is at the bottom of the pad in the middle and would probably be pretty annoying if we didn’t have a king size. (Either that or it’s meant to be at the top of the bed and we switched the pad around to be at the bottom. The cords are long enough to be set up both ways so either works, but having the connection at the top would interfere way too much). When we roll into the middle of the bed our feet rub against it but it doesn’t happen too often due to it being a bigger bed. Hubby kicks it more often just due to his height. Be prepared for that if you have a smaller bed or move around a lot at night. But, I don’t know where else they could realistically put the connection, so don’t know how they could solve that issue. I’d give this thing 5 stars except that it occasionally dies on us. We’ll wake up to a cold bed (or walk back in 5 minutes after turning it on) and see a controller blinking, indicating it died. You have to then unplug the power cord from the wall socket and plug it back in to get it to work again, and it might or might not die again depending on whatever it feels like doing that day. It’s an easy fix but super annoying having to get on the floor and reach under/behind the bed to unplug/replug the cord and more annoying if you’re relying on that heating pad for the night to stay warm instead of using the furnace to heat the whole house that night (it works great when the pad doesn’t die. It’s kind of nice waking up to a brisk morning but still having that warm bed, ya know?) We’ve had it long enough to know there’s nothing different or special happening on the times it dies. No pattern or any reason to pinpoint a cause. And it died after about the second use, so it’s not a “parts wearing out” type of issue. If I absolutely had to guess, I’d say it dies maybe 45% of the time we turn it on. Repeat deaths that same night after re-plugging the cord, maybe 25%? There’s nothing wrong with the outlet or power supply either. It’s just a finicky pad. And not a big deal, but I’d recommend getting those stretchy bed straps that go under the mattress and keep your fitted sheet from coming up and bunching up on the top of the bed. The pad likes to wrinkle a little on us, so clipping the straps to the bottom fitted edges of the pad that stretch around the bottom of your mattress helps prevent the pad from bunching, same as it does for fitted sheets. (The heating wires are only on the top of the pad so no harm clipping to the bottom edges.)