Oregon Scientific BAR388HGA Wireless Weather Station with Temperature/Humidity Display and...

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	Oregon Scientific BAR388HGA Wireless Weather Station with Temperature/Humidity Display and Self-Setting ... Oregon Scientific Oregon Scientific, 2006 average customer review:based on 33 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Just a couple of caveats

This unit is easy to read and works great--compared to what, I dunno. We've never owned anything like this. But it's fun to have, much more so than a simple thermometer.

Two caveats however. You need a very small flat-head screwdriver in order to put the AAA batteries into the sensor. Not so small as the one in an eyeglass repair kit though. I had a small screwdriver with a shirt-pocket clip, that small, and still had to file the sides down in order to reach the deeply recessed screws. I'll have to do this anytime the batteries need changing. Not the best design perhaps.

Second, the instructions tell you to put the (outdoor) sensor (1) in a sight line with the (indoor) monitor-- (2) open to the sky-- (3) out of the sun-- (4) out of the rain-- (5) away from metal-- It's not easy to do all of this! Ours is nestled in a plastic container cut up into the shape of a bus kiosk and tied to a post. I'm not sure if it's all 100% necessary.

The atomic clock took about a day to find its signal. The instructions warn about this odd (to me) likelihood.

It's a little discouraging to have to deal with all of this out of the box but as I say the device is great.

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Handy, easy to read. My only complaint is that it took a long time to match up with the atomic clock.

fred

Good product. Works very well.Oregon Scientific BAR388HGA-BK Wireless Weather Station with Temperature/Humidity Display and Self-Setting Atomic Clock, Black

Truly excellent weather station. Only 3 slight issues.

After comparing this weather station to the more expensive ones, I gave in on the nice looks of this one and can't say that I'm disappointed. We really love this unit. We check the temperature and the humidity outside every day and not once was it inaccurate. The rain predictor is a bit fishy to me, it thinks it's going to rain 60% of the time when it never does. But it beats listening to the weather people on the news who can't even tell if it really is going to snow tomorrow.

The only 3 issues that we found with this are 1) it doesn't have a backlight so you can't see anything in the dark; 2) the time doesn't seem to adjust automatically to our zone and 3) the battery on the remote sensor died in like 2 months.

Despite these 3 issues, I would buy this unit again over all the others currently on the market.

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