Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20: Weight, Price and Alternatives
The Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 has a published weight of 1 lb 5 oz and a listed price of About $340, which is about 13 percent of a 10 lb ultralight base weight.
The Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 is our intermediate tier pick in quilts, with a published weight of 1 lb 5 oz and a listed price of About $340. The quilt that made the category mainstream. The footbox zips fully open, so it works as a quilt in summer and closes down like a bag when the temperature drops, and it is built to your length, width, fill power and rating.
What is the Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 actually good at?
The quilt that made the category mainstream. The footbox zips fully open, so it works as a quilt in summer and closes down like a bag when the temperature drops, and it is built to your length, width, fill power and rating.
Best for: Back and side sleepers who already own a warm pad and want one quilt for most of the year.
A quilt deletes the insulation you were flattening underneath you anyway, plus the hood and the zip, which is where its weight saving comes from. Quilts are a cottage category: nearly every maker builds to order and sells direct, which is why they fit better than off the shelf bags and why almost none of them appear on Amazon.
What does it do to your base weight?
At 1 lb 5 oz this item accounts for roughly 13 percent of a 10 lb ultralight base weight and about 7 percent of a 20 lb traditional one. That framing matters more than the raw number: an ounce saved on a headlamp is noise, and a pound saved on a shelter is a category of its own. Put your real figures into the gear list builder and the same item will show you what it costs against your list rather than against an average one.
Published weights are taken in the manufacturer's favour: usually the smallest size, usually without the stuff sack, stakes or guylines that come in the box. Expect a real-world figure an ounce or two heavier and weigh it once when it arrives. A $9 kitchen scale is the cheapest useful upgrade to any gear list, because it stops the spreadsheet lying to you.
How does it compare with the rest of the quilts?
Every item below has been verified against the retailer listing, and every weight is the manufacturer's published figure for the configuration named. Sorted lightest first, so the trade between weight and everything else is visible in one pass.
| Model | Published weight | Listed price | Tier | Where to buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 | 1 lb 5 oz | About $340 | Intermediate | Enlightened Equipment direct |
| Hammock Gear Economy Burrow | Varies | Varies | Beginner | Hammock Gear direct |
| Katabatic Gear Palisade 30 | Varies | Varies | Expert | Katabatic Gear direct |
| Nunatak Arc UL | Varies | Varies | Expert | Nunatak direct |
Why does this quilt have no EN or ISO rating?
Cottage quilt makers build to order and most do not pay for EN 13537 or ISO 23537 laboratory testing, so a quilt rating is usually the maker's own figure rather than a certified one. Treat it the way you would treat a certified limit rating, which is to say as a survival number rather than a comfort one, and plan for comfortable sleep roughly 10 to 15 degrees Fahrenheit above it. Drafts are the failure mode that ratings never capture: a quilt that is not sealed to the pad leaks warm air every time you move, and no fill weight fixes that.
Which complete kits use it?
This item appears in 2 of the complete gear lists on this site, which is the most useful context a single product page can give you: not what it weighs in isolation, but what share of a finished kit it accounts for and what the rest of that kit looks like around it.
| Complete kit | Season | Kit base weight | This item | Share of base | Kit cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-10 lb | Three season | 8 lb 11.9 oz | 21.0 oz | 15% | $3121.78 |
| Thru-hike | Three season, long distance | 9 lb 15.2 oz | 21.0 oz | 13% | $2700.83 |
Every one of those kits lists every item you need to actually go, with a per item weight and price, a running total down both columns, a section on what you can skip, and an upgrade ladder priced in grams saved per dollar. Each also loads straight into the gear list builder so you can swap this item for something you already own and watch the total move. That is usually a faster way to decide whether a purchase is worth it than reading another review of it.
Who should skip it?
Anyone whose conditions sit well outside what this item is built for. Nothing here is a universal answer, and the honest failure mode of a gear list is not weight, it is a piece of kit that was chosen for a different trip than the one you are taking.
Going lighter must not mean going unprepared. Shelter adequate to the actual conditions, insulation, rain protection, water treatment and a way to call for help are fixed costs on any list. If a lighter version of this item means cutting into one of those, it is the wrong purchase however good the spec sheet looks. You are responsible for what you walk into, and the forecast is not the conditions.
Related reading
- Our full quilts roundup, split into beginner, intermediate and expert tiers
- Temperature rating chart
- Quilt versus sleeping bag
- Gear list builder: see what this item does to your own base weight
- Base weight calculator
- Six complete example gear lists, every item priced and linked
- All verified gear specs, A to Z
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 weigh?
The published weight is 1 lb 5 oz, which is 21.0 ounces or about 595 grams. That is roughly 13 percent of a 10 lb ultralight base weight on its own. This figure is the manufacturer's for the size and configuration named, not a weight we measured, and published figures run light often enough that it is worth putting your own scale under it.
Is the Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 worth the money?
The quilt that made the category mainstream. The footbox zips fully open, so it works as a quilt in summer and closes down like a bag when the temperature drops, and it is built to your length, width, fill power and rating. At the listed About $340 it sits at the expensive end of its category, and prices move constantly, so confirm before you buy.
Where can you buy the Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20?
Enlightened Equipment sells this direct and it is genuinely not available on Amazon. That is normal for cottage ultralight brands, which build to order and sell through their own storefront. The link on this page goes to the manufacturer and earns us nothing, which is exactly why we are comfortable recommending it.
What does the Enlightened Equipment Revelation 20 compete against?
On the same shelf: Hammock Gear Economy Burrow, Katabatic Gear Palisade 30, Nunatak Arc UL. The comparison table on this page lines them up by published weight and price so the trade is visible rather than argued. Our full ranking of the category, split into beginner, intermediate and expert tiers, is in the roundup linked below.
Are the weights on this page measured or published?
Published. We compare manufacturer specifications and verified owner reviews, and we do not test gear in person or run a gear lab. Manufacturer weights are usually taken from the lightest size, without stuff sacks, stakes or guylines, so a real-world figure is often an ounce or two heavier. Weigh your own kit and put the real numbers into the gear list builder.
How we choose: we compare published manufacturer specifications, listed weights, and verified owner reviews across retailers. We do not test gear in person, and every weight quoted here is the manufacturer's figure unless we say otherwise, so weigh your own kit before you trust a total. Going lighter also means carrying less margin, so treat insulation, navigation, water treatment and an emergency plan as fixed costs rather than places to save grams.