Honeywell TM005X Wireless Indoor/Outdoor Thermo-Hygrometer
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Customer Review: Great buy - Works well
Summary: 5 Stars
Worked exactly as advertised and I'm glad that the the 1st (of 3 possible) remote units came with the base. I purchased the unit in order to monitor mainly the humidity in various rooms of my home. This time of year in the mid-west the air can get dry and I was having sinus issues. I have used the remote unit to move around to different rooms (including the basement) within the house to compare to the base unit stationed in our main living area. In addition, I had some painting to do in my garage which required the temp to be >50deg F. I started up my heater, placed the remote unit in the garage and monitored the rising temperature from in the house to know when I was able to get started.
I have no reference to compare the accuracy of the unit to know if it's calibrated properly, but checking against my thermostat, it's identical.
There were no issues with getting the units to communicate, the display and function buttons are clear and logical to use. The min/max feature is nice to know what type of variation occurs with the temp or humidity.
Customer Review: Very good, very accurate
Summary: 4 Stars
**UPDATE 4/11** The external sensor has gone off the deep end. The temperature was constantly about 10 degrees off - I brought it into the house and sat it next to the main receiver. The hygrometer also showed a difference of about 10-20% humidity from the base unit. After a few days inside I threw it in the freezer and it actually seemed to help. Buying a new sensor is almost as much as a whole new unit. It's still working for the most part now, although I'm sometimes skeptical of the readings, especially the hygrometer. We'll see how much longer it lasts. *****
Very happy with this thermometer. I compared the accuracy with another thermometer and it proved both accurate and repeatable. As far as the hygrometer is concerned it seems to be very accurate provided there hasn't been a recent rain or considerable morning dew.
My only complaint is that the base of the remote unit doesn't always provide great stability. It is better off mounted as opposed to free standing.
Customer Review: Convenient inside and outside temp/humidity measurement
Summary: 4 Stars
Easy to use, works as advertised, and the numerals on the indoor reporting unit are so large that the temperatures can easily be read even by old eyes in dim light. The absolute accuracy is questionable: placing our solitary remote side by side with the indoor reporting unit, attempting to ensure they experienced the same thermal effects in various locations and allowing plenty of time for settling, resulted in readings that varied from each other up to about 3 degrees F, with the remote unit indicating, on average, about one deg. F lower. That was over a relatively narrow range of temperatures, from about 75-85 degrees F. This doesn't really reflect on absolute accuracy, which I have no way to measure, but it suggests less than ideal consistency, which is usually easier to achieve than accuracy. I have no idea of the accuracy over the functional temperature range. Still, if precision isn't necessary then this is a great, inexpensive little wireless remote reporting thermo-hygrometer.Customer Review: Works as advertised, with a couple minor complaints
Summary: 4 Stars
This unit performs well. I've had it for about a month, and the remote sensor works well. The only minor issues I've noticed are:
-The base unit supports 3 remote monitoring channels. You have to click through each channel to see the remote unit temperature. Most people will only have one remote unit, so why can't I configure the base unit to ignore the other two channels? It's time consuming to always click through the two blank channels.
-No AC adapter. You will always need a steady supply of batteries, especially for the remote unit. Batteries die quicker in cold temperatures.
-There are four little screws on the remote unit used to create a water tight seal. They are annoying to remove and replace each time the battery dies.
-The base unit must be rebooted when you change batteries in the remote unit in order to reliably find the remote unit. The directions warn you about always starting the remote unit before the base unit.
Customer Review: Extremely wasteful packaging, microscopic print in manual
Summary: 2 Stars
First of all, this works great. It does what I want and does it well.
Setup was very easy.
I'm giving this two stars because this came in a huge blister pac. When I first saw the box from Amazon I was going to file a complaint for wasteful packaging. Once I opened the box, I realize the blister pac made such a large box necessary. The box was 16 x 12 x 5.5 inches. I received another item from Amazon in a A1 box, 10 x 7 x 3.5 inches. This could have fit in that box if it wasn't for the blister pac.
Also you'll probably need a magnifying glass to read the manual. I did at first, then located the manual online at the honeywellstore.
If this had been packaged rationally, the box could have been 1/3 to 1/4 the size. Also like all blister pacs it's a pain to open.
If this was packaged properly,and come with a readable manual, I'd have given it five stars.