How do I wear ICEPLATE® Gen 3? - The Wearable Cooling, Heating and Hydration Human Booster Rocket
Originally designed for the US Army in 2016, our ICEPLATE® line of wearable water bottles that warm you up or cool you down using your drinking water can be found on the backs of hundreds of thousands of professionals in a variety of industries in addition to US and Allied military personnel.
This diverse pool of military, law enforcement and safety professionals has driven us to create an equally diverse ecosystem of Vests and Carriers for ICEPLATE® Gen 3.
This article is about standalone systems to wear/use ICEPLATE® Gen 3, but if you want to know how ICEPLATE® works with backpacks or armor, check out our articles on ICEPLATE® Backpack Compatibility and ICEPLATE® Plate Carrier Compatibility. If you are a travel enthusiast or road warrior, then this article on The Best Carry-On Water Bottle for Travel/Flying might be more helpful. If you wear a HiVis safety vest regulated by OSHA, click here to view our HiVis Class 2 Safety Vests with Cooling/Heating/Hydration.
If you are in a hurry, here is a quick video and infographic showing just SOME of the ways to carry your ICEPLATE® Gen 3:
ICEPLATE® Gen 3
ICEPLATE® Configurations
ICEPLATE EXO® Gen 3
Best for: Direct Action, Armed Reconnaissance, General Purpose/Infantry, SWAT, Patrol, Maritime/Amphibious, VBSS/OIB, Force on Force Training (sims, Airsoft, Milsim), Tactical Games, CrossFit/High Intensity Interval Training, Patriot Games, Home Defense/Personal Security, Disaster Response, WROL
Markets: SOF, Military, Law Enforcement, Fire/EMS, Security Contractors, Trained/Prepared Citizens
ICEPLATE EXO® Gen 3 sets a new standard in military and special operations plate carriers. It allows the end-user to natively integrate multiple performance-enhancing technologies never before seen in a body armor system: Conductive Cooling, Evaporative Cooling, Conductive Heating, and Hydration. It is the only plate carrier capable of boosting your physiological state/capacity.
ICEPLATE EXO® Gen 3 can accommodate Medium ESAPI hard or soft armor plates and ICEPLATE® Gen 3 due to their identical architecture. It is incredibly versatile, and because it is skeletonized, hydrophobic, and ventilated in every direction, it drains and repels water with incredible ease and speed. You can use it as a chest rig with hydration/cooling/heating ICEPLATE® Gen 3 worn in place of armor. However, when armor is required, Medium ESAPI hard armor plates can be worn with or without ICEPLATE® Gen 3/ IMS Pro Gen 3, depending on your specific mission requirements. ICEPLATE EXO® Gen 3 also organically integrates our proprietary ICEVENTS® line of ventilated load-bearing pads.
ICEPLATE® SLK Gen 3
Above: ICEPLATE® SLK Gen 3 in Cooling, Heating, Hydration configuration.
Best for: Commercial/enterprise, drone pilots, mechanics, maintenance technicians, trades…basically any application where you need cooling, heating, hydration and High Visibility.
Markets: Enterprise, Commercial/Industrial, Energy/Natural Resources, Government/Military, Drive-Thru/QSR (Quick Serve Restaurant), Utilities, Public Transportation/Infrastructure (rail, airports, rental car facilities, etc.), Oil & Gas, crime scene investigators, car washes, drone pilots, longshoremen...the list is literally endless!
ICEPLATE® SLK Gen 3 is the ultimate cooling/heating/hydration vest for everyone from drone pilots and wedding photographers to tradesmen and outdoor enthusiasts. Carrying two ICEPLATE® Gen 3s instead of hard armor plates, ICEPLATE® SLK Gen 3 delivers 140 watts of cooling or 104 watts of heating and 100 fluid ounces of hydration in an ultralight form factor optimized for intense athletic movement, yet comfortable for all day wear around the yard. ICEPLATE® SLK Gen 3 packs the power and durability found on ICEPLATE EXO® Gen 3, but without all of the highly technical features specific to armed combat applications. This trade greatly increases accessibility for everyone: private and professional users alike.
ICEVEST HiVis Cooling/Heating/Hydration Safety Vest (Class 2)
Above: ICEVEST HiVis Cooling/Heating/Hydration Safety Vest (Class 2)
Best for: Professionals who need ANSI/OSHA Class 2 high visibility safety apparel with cooling, heating, hydration
Markets: Enterprise, Commercial, Industrial, Energy/Natural Resources, Government, QSR (Quick Serve Restaurant), drive thru, Utilities, Public Transportation/Infrastructure (rail, airports, rental car facilities, etc.), Oil & Gas, crime scene investigators, car washes, drone pilots, longshoremen, crossing guards, the list is literally endless!
The ICEVEST HiVis Safety Vest is the result of a unique collaboration with a group of Arizona Drive-Thru Restaurant Operators to combine multiple work functions into a single piece of kit. Shortly after the program launched, these Quick Serve Restaurant Operators referred us to Dutch Bros Arizona and Dutch Bros West Valley who were also looking to combine the powerful personal cooling capability of ICEPLATE® with their own Safety Requirements to keep their teams safe in the drive thru.
ICEVEST HiVis Safety Vest is a powerful, multi-purpose HSE (Health, Safety and Environmental) and productivity tool built to the safety compliance standards outlined in ANSI 107-2015.
Built from an incredibly durable, yet lightweight structural mesh, ICEVEST HiVis Cooling/Heating/Hydration Safety Vest (Class 2) is so breathable, it makes for a perfect year-round, all-climate ANSI 107-2015 Class 2 high visibility safety vest solution. ICEVEST HiVis can be worn without ICEPLATE® as a regular HiVis Class 2 safety vest. This is ideal for temperate days when supplemental cooling/heating are not required and is easy on the budget too. This is the last safety vest you will ever have to buy.
ICEPLATE® Backpack Gen 3 with Cooling / Heating / Hydration
Above: ICEPLATE® Backpack Gen 3 with Cooling / Heating / Hydration
Best for: QSR (Quick Serve Restaurants), drive thru, walking, day hiking, travel/amusement parks
Markets: QSR, drive thru, recreational, county fairs, school yards
The ICEPLATE® Backpack Gen 3 is ergonomically optimized for various athletic body types. Its monolithic chassis straps are equally suited for the trail, around town, on a job site, or in a drive-thru.
Beyond hydration and conductive thermoregulation, ICEPLATE® Backpack Gen 3 offers cooling, heating, and hydration, making it a productivity powerhouse.
IMS Pro Gen 3 (+ CATAMARAN Gen 3 for universal mounting)
Above: IMS Pro Gen 3 for internal cooling, heating and hydration or external hydration on any plate carrier.
Best for: Military and law enforcement plate carriers in need of plate carrier hydration, plate carrier cooling and/or plate carrier heating while preserving the ability to preserve their plate carrier MOLLE field for mounting additional kit without worry of bladder compression or bladder rupture. Ideal for mounted personnel (vehicles).
Markets: Military, Law Enforcement, Private Security, Contractors, Fire/EMS, Prepared Citizens
IMS Pro Gen 3 is our current generation of ICEPLATE® MOLLE Sleeve. Designed from the ground up for ICEPLATE EXO® Gen 3 compatibility, IMS Pro Gen 3 is also universally compatible with any plate carrier on the market today thanks to the hook on one side and loop Velcro on the other with MOLLE on both sides. Dual side MOLLE + Velcro facilitates mounting on the inside (Cooling, Heating, Hydration, Impact Protection) or outside (hydration only) of any plate carrier with any combination of MOLLE and/or Hook and Loop Velcro when combined with CATAMARAN Gen 3.
ICEPLATE® MOLLE Back Panel by Dynamic Principles
Above: ICEPLATE® MOLLE Back Panel for internal externally mounted hydration on any MOLLE equipped plate carrier.
Best for: Military and law enforcement plate carriers in need of plate carrier hydration while preserving the ability to preserve their plate carrier MOLLE field for mounting additional kit via MOLLE or Crye JPC 2.0 zip-on back panel compatibility, without worry of bladder compression or bladder rupture. Ideal for mounted personnel (vehicles).
Markets: Military, Law Enforcement, Private Security, Contractors, Fire/EMS, Prepared Citizens
ICEPLATE® MOLLE Back Panel is a lightweight, low profile solution to allow MOLLE mounting of a Qore Performance ICEPLATE® to the external PALS field of your carrier. The design is optimized for ICEPLATE® Gen 3's new features. The external mounting is intended to give you hydration only use of your ICEPLATE® and allows for heavy packs and equipment to be worn over the top without fear of rupture.
It features four fixed MOLLE straps, three removable one-wrap loops for drink tube management, a 6"x3" loop field for identification patches, full laser cut PALS on the outside and bottom for pouch attachment and Crye-pattern zippers for attaching zip-on back panels.
Between all these products, there is a carrier solution for nearly every ICEPLATE® application. Contact us on LiveChat, email us or call us at 703.755.0724 with any questions!
Hi Logan,
See the article above as well as our #14 in our ICEPLATE® Gen 3 FAQ and 8:22 in the video at the top of the articel here for detailed answers to your question:
https://www.qoreperformance.com/blogs/military-insights/iceplate-faq-a-deeper-dive-into-the-why-the-science-and-the-design-of-the-worlds-most-capable-water-bottle?pos=9&_sid=d2a36263b&ss=r
We hope this helps, but please let us know if you have any additional questions.
#StayFrosty
Qore Performance Customer Support Team
If I wear this in a plate carrier…does it replace the armor in the back slot?
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