Customer Reviews

Honeywell PCR426W Weather Forecaster with Dual Projection and Atomic Clock

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(8)

 

 

As a clock projector, this works well. Plenty of focus and adjustment options. I can see the time and temp clearly on my ceiling. That's about where the good things end.

The goofy cloud/sun indicator is a projection, but you have no adjustment over it. Why not??

The alarm is a joke. It was obviously intended for light sleepers. It has no volume adjustment, and is just a soft beeping.

If you make the mistake of brushing over the TOUCH SENSITIVE ALARM SWITCH (WTF???) you won't be hearing back from your alarm after you hit snooze. Hope you weren't planning to get up on time.

The light sensor doesn't work. When set on Auto, you would think the LCD backlight would turn on when dark. Nope, you have to press a button for things to light up. Real smart.

The projector has no sensor option at all, so it either always on (a waste of energy and bulb life during the day) or off totally (again, requiring you to press the snooze button if you want to see the time on your ceiling...why??)

The weather transmitter unit thing worked one night and I never heard from it again. I brought it back inside thinking it was just too cold for it, but alas, still nothing.

I'm going to read through the (not so great) instructions once more to get the thing to re-acquire (if I remember correctly, having to remove the tiny screws to access the buttons inside on the transmitter), but I suspect reliability is going to continue to be lame.

Overall, I am getting my old alarm clock back out. My whole reason for buying this one was to have the projector feature. I didn't want to have to have seperate devices, but here I am. I should have known better than to assume an all-in-one device might actually work like it should.

**UPDATE** - the projection portion of this unit has now started to fail, resulting in impossible times of 10:76, etc. This is now a glorious paperweight.

Luckily, I kept the box and I am underneath a year warranty, so we'll see what Honeyfail does for me.

I also purchased this unit on line & followed the directions to the letter. It works perfectly!!!! This is the fourth projection weather clock I bought & the only one I am keeping.If you follow the directions, the outside weather comes on & then the inside. I manually set the clock, & the next day the atomic time set itself & works perfectly. The Back light works either continuously or put it on auto & it comes on as the room darkens. I was a little skeptical when I bought it, but couldn't be happier now.

This clock is difficult to setup and operate. In an age where we have iPods, iPhones and Wiis, I can't believe Honeywell would manufacture and sell something that is so non-intuitive, clunky and stupid. The other folks who criticized this item are correct - it tells the time and everything else is hard to use, non-adjustable and clunky. Honeywell - why don't you hire some interface designers to make something suitable for this decade instead of the 1970s?

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.

This product is a piece of trash. The atomic clock would not work, the temperature sensor had a extremely limited range, the function "buttons" were not operational and the instructions were very poorly written. All in all a very disappointing product. Luckily, Amazon gave a refund with no issue.

The temperature sensor never worked right. The alarm eventually stopped working. Too easy to hit "touch sensitive" buttons and change major settings (like the alarm). Nice looking, but too much of the functionality just fails. I threw it in the trash. I tried for months to like it.

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

I trusted the Honeywell name - probably a mistake. I owned another projection clock and had zero trouble with it for years - another brand and cheaper. I am tossing out this very hard to use, the directions were written without much information that was understandable it could have been written by a teenager, the projection is out of focus and not bright enough to see unless all the lights are out. A real piece of junk! I paid more for this?

Projection failed after one year. Have had Oregon Scientific which I paid $20. for for 5 years. No problem.

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).