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MSR XPD Heat Exchanger

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This corrugated metal windscreen wraps around your cookpot and funnels heat up the sides for faster, more even heating.

Secures around the pot with an adjustable screw-hook closure
The MSR Alpine cookset plus the heat exchanger make up the MSR XPD cookset
Especially helpful at high altitude

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MSR XPD Heat Exchanger Customer Reviews

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MSR XPD Heat Exchanger

4.6

(based on 5 reviews)

100%

of respondents would recommend this to a friend.

Pros

Easy to use (3)
Functional (3)
Lightweight (3)

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry camping (5)
Camping (4)
Survival (3)

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Mar

2008

(21 of 21 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Saves Fuel

By Uncle Travelin

from Massachusetts

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Pros

Durable Design
Easy To Adjust
Easy To Setup
Lightweight

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Emergencies
Survival

Comments about MSR XPD Heat Exchanger:

Tested 6 stoves/fuels, side by each at ambient temp of 20 degrees. Water was at 40 degrees. Matching MSR pans cooled in snow three minutes between tests. regardless of stove selected, cover and heat exchanger made difference. On the Whisperlite Internationale, for example: An uncovered pot took 6 minutes and thirty seconds to boil; adding a tight lid dropped the boiling time by a minute and a half; fitting it with the heat exchanger and cover reduced the boiling time to just four minutes. The MSR heat exchanger was advertised at 7 oz; ours weighed in at 5.2. Saves 2 oz fuel per pint at 20 degrees. Troop 6 did the test, you do your math. We'll take one every trip.

Apr

2010

(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Almost 15 years and going

By Michiganblip

from Michigan

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Pros

Easy to Use
Functional

Cons

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping

Comments about MSR XPD Heat Exchanger:

This product has been in use for just about 15 years. It has gone several different places and has saved fuel and time each time used. That said setup takes an extra few seconds but water boils faster, food feeds hungry people faster. While I have not done any comparisons with a stop watch I have in the past decided not to use it. After twiddeling my thumbs a little too long decided it will be used every time warm, cold, high or low altitude. Two last items, first as my wife has started going camping with me I've begun the transition to minimalist, as I now carry 1.5x the weight I used to, zero weight would be awesome. With the weight of fuel and less being needed I figure the weight to be a wash making speed the desiding factor. The second, being the main reason for posting this, is the use with an alpine cookset. As was stated in the begining mine is almost 15 years old is used with the alpine 2 cookset(wish this set was available in Ti)and a whisperlie international. When packed right everything fits just fine, even silverware for two, nested into the cookset. You must put in everything just so and while I found that a strap is handy it does not require any type of force to put the lid on. If I remeber, I will take pics and add later.

May

2008

(3 of 3 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

works great

By Green Mountain Mike

from Currently, Coloma WI

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Pros

Durable Design
Easy To Adjust
Easy To Setup
Lightweight

Cons

Difficult to pack

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Survival

Comments about MSR XPD Heat Exchanger:

Works great. Got mine with my Alpine cookset, well worth the money. Only problem: it takes up the space in my cookset that I use for my stove or MSR Kitchen Cupboard. I take it for cold weather or high altitude, and for my 2 week survival trip every other year. It really cuts down on the fuel usage.

Mar

2010

(1 of 1 customers found this review helpful)

4.0

Exceeds expectations

By Blackwalnut

from Ellensburg, WA

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Pros

Easy to Use
Functional
Lightweight

Cons

Bulky

Best Uses

Backcountry Camping
Campgrounds
Winter Camping

Comments about MSR XPD Heat Exchanger:

In a recent side by side test of several cooking systems the MSR heat exchanger paired with my MSR Whisperlite stove and the large alpine pot plus lid boiled 600 ml of water in 2 minutes 21 seconds. 45° F at Goose Prairie WA. 600ml was used to make it fair as that was the capacity of one of the systems, in this case a titanium cookpot, which by the way did not prove to be very efficient. For winter camping or backpacking trips of more than a few days the fuel savings will pay for the added weight of the MSR heat exchanger. The only drawback IMHO is the bulk of the heat exchanger. With it coiled up in the nestled pots there is no longer room for the stove.