Cheetah Windscreens

JetBoil and their copycats are great products for the average backpacker. If you are concerned about pack weight, assembling your own system can reduce that weight by a considerable amount. For standalone Heat Exchange mugs, Fire Maple Petrel (HX) mugs are the leader in field both for performance and well as low cost. While they are an excellent mug, overall performance can vary depending upon which stove you have. The ideal combination is the Soto WindMaster 3 Flex with these mugs.

What do you do if you don’t use the Soto WindMaster? The Petrel mugs requires you to use a stove that has pot support arms that are oriented radially from the center of the burner. Stoves like the ever-popular BRS 3000t are not compatible with Petrel mugs as the pot support arms will not fit into the Petrel slots. Additionally, stoves that have a large burner head to pot distance are too sensitive to the wind, thus making them almost useless when the wind picks up.

At Flat Cat Gear, we tackled this problem by creating windscreens that adapt stoves to be compatible with the Petrel series of mugs. (see the matrix below). We do this and preserve the optimal burner to pot bottom distance as defined by the stove manufacture. The windscreens enable fantastic fuel efficiencies in the high winds. The windscreens are designed to completely nest inside your cookware (see performance charts below).

Fire Maple Petrel G3 600 ml	Fire Maple Petrel G2 750 ml	Fire Maple Petrel Ramen 800 ml
Cheetah Pocket Rocket Deluxe	Cheetah Pocket Rocket Deluxe
Fire Maple Polaris & GreenPeak	Fire Maple Polaris and GreenPeak
	Fire Maple Hornet II
		Ocelot 6 Soto WindMaster 3 Flex
Ocelot Universal	Ocelot Universal	Ocelot Universal