Honeywell PCR426W Weather Forecaster with Dual Projection and Atomic Clock
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Honeywell PCR426W Weather Forecaster with Dual Projection and Atomic Clock
Customer Review: More junk
Summary: 1 Stars
I was simply hoping to project the temperature at the unit onto the a 8' high section of a ceiling from a 1 1/2' high table, in other words, project 6 1/2' onto a dark white ceiling! Damn projector is not strong enough to do that in low or no lighting conditions! The adjustment for straightening the projected temp will not hold it's position due to what I believe are the wires to the projector twisting and springing back! The projected numbers are brighter in the center while loosing intensity away from the center!
The base of the unit is made from very cheap plastic. Meade and Honeywell should be very proud of this POS. This has become typical of most of this type of merchandise; cheap, disposable, non-functional (in many cases), untested, crap.
If you set the backlighting to continuous, the interior temperature sensor is heated by the backlight and the reading is about 9 degrees higher than a remote unit setting right next to it! Engineers? Not here. The clock is made to operate this way....just not correctly.
Leave this one on the shelf or page. It's a POS like all its factory brothers.
Bad design, non-functional, poor materials, bad decision making, bad manufacturing, typical modern day bells and whistles junk!
I think Meade/Honeywell will get this one back with a note suggesting a good uncomfortable storage place for the CEOs.
..../jp
Customer Review: Great Product-No Problems After 6 Months!
Summary: 4 Stars
I looked high and low for a clock that displayed both the temperature and time on the ceiling at the same time. I didn't want a clock that alternated the display of this data. I have 1 sensor placed outside about 40 feet from the unit and so far it has been accurate. The indoor built-in temperature sensor is really inaccurate so that is why I gave this product 4 stars.
I like the different options for lighting the clock at night and I like the amber glow of the clock. I turn the lighting feature on at night and off during the day. I don't want to burn out the light as some of the reviewers have mentioned.
Every night the atomic feature locks-in so I know that this feature is working well. The settings are a bit complicated for the average user and the touch features are really sensitive which is why I gave this 4 stars also.
All in all, a good clock at the price I bought this unit.
Customer Review: 2nd time around
Summary: 4 Stars
This is the third Honeywell projector clock I have bought, one as a gift. My first went out, apparently due to a power surge in an electrical storm. The gift had a longer life but has also ceased to function corectly after about 30 months. This new model is cheaper, and adds the weather icon to the projected information. Both versions are tricky to set, and unless you live in the Pacific time zone, must be re-set if the power is interrupted-which isn't too easy.
Apart from the relatively short product lives of my previous version and the same model given as a gift, and some muttering with setting and resetting. I've found the information provided a delight. The new verision presents more information on the screen more visably than the previous model. If reliability and set-up could be made easier, I would pay more and give the item 5 stars.
Customer Review: Love it!
Summary: 4 Stars
I really missed my projection clock when it finally died after about 6-7 years. Could not find one excactly like it.This clock does everything I want & then some. I wanted inside temp. (hard to find) to be projected along with outside temp. This clock also has a cute little extra that projects the upcoming weather forcast with little pictures, cute, also pretty acurate. The only thing I found slightly disappointing was the numbers project like an old fashion digital....the numbers are sort of dashed instead of solid. All in all a good find. had it about a month so can't vouch for the durability. If it lasts as long as my old one I'll be happy.Customer Review: LCD broke after 9 months: garbled projection
Summary: 2 Stars
I bought the identical looking Model PCR11ELW without the weather feature.
I got it to work and was satisfied.
After 8 or 9 months several sections of the LCD gave up resulting in a garbled useless display. Bad quality - and I did not register the device
and did not kep the box with the UPC - out of luck with 1 year warranty.
I trusted the Honeywell name - probably a mistake.
I have had one other projection clock for 5 years - another brand and cheaper, that still works fine (I bought it in Europe).