Customer Reviews

Oregon Scientific Cable-Free Thermo-Hygrometer

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I originally bought a GE unit from Target. Piece of junk, very inaccurate.

I wanted to monitor the humidity in my basement workshop with a dehumidifier. With the extended unit, i can monitor my bedroom and with another extra extended unit i monitor my babies room.

All 3 separate units, the main unit and 2 extended units placed together showed very similar readings. The GE product was over 15% wrong with humidity, (they say it's calibrated within 5%).

I also brought the Oregon Scientific units outdoors and checked the humidity against what the National Weather Service reported for the area and it was right on. The GE unit reported 80% humidity in a while the OG units showed 65% as reported by th Nation Weather Service.

They seem more substantial pieces and not toys displaying big LCD numbers and graphics.

These are not expensive compared to really high end humidity measuring devices so i expect inaccuracy and can tolerate inaccuracy within reason. (Unlike the GE sold at target) Therefore this product meets and even exceeds my expectations. I believe it represents honestly what it intends to do for this price range.

Purchased a month ago & works great. I retired from the

field of electronics design & engineering over 5 years ago.

A few years prior to that I developed a remote sensing

thermometer (wire connected) that had only a fraction of

the features of this, at a cost of several times the price

of this unit. I am impressed !!!

Bob Whitehair

works as advertised, stand that holds it up falls off every other second, additonal sensors are expensive.

I have owned this unit for about three years. The outdoor sensor resides on a column under a covered patio at the rear of my home. The receiver is in the home office, which is approximately 40' from the sending unit. The signal must travel through four walls to the receiver. It has worked like a charm from day one and is extremely accurate. Batteries have been changed only one time during my ownership. I purchased another sensor for another part of my home, which is indoors (and further from the receiver and has more walls to penetrate than the outdoor sensor). So, I have three readings around my home...one outside, one in my home office and another upstairs in a remote room. This system is strudy, reliable and has a very nice appearance. I like having the information displayed on the remote sensors as well. One glance and I know what is happening when at those locations. You cannot go wrong with Oregon Scientific. I am amazed that the cost of this monitoring system is so reasonable, given the quality that is present. I am now purchasing a duplicate system for my beach home. You will never regret having chosen this package for your weather information needs. A conservative five+++ stars goes to OS and this product.

I purchased this unit in late December 2002 (as a Christmas present to myself), and was tremendously pleased with it for nearly a year.....

However, a few months ago it developed a horribly irritating flaw -- the LCD screen would simply go blank, and had to be reset (PITA, because it doesn't have a reset "button"; instead, you have to straighten out a paperclip and shove it into a small hole in the back).

I've emailed the folks at Oregon Scientific about this problem, and they suggested a variety of things that they thought *might* correct this behaviour (i.e. make sure the transmitting and receiving units are at least 10ft apart, try switching to a different channel, etc). Unfortunately, none of their suggestions had any effect on the problem, and it just continues to get worse (i.e. I now have to go thru the reset process 2 or 3 times before the display comes back). And a subsequent email to the Oregon Scientific folks 3 days ago has yet to be responded to.

So while I was satisfied with this unit at one time, it is now just worthless, and I consider it to have been a waste of my money.

The Thermo-Hygrometer and the remote sensor work great. I ordered a extra wireless remote sensor (THR138) and it does not work. The main unit receives no signal from this sensor.

I ordered another complete unit for about ten bucks more than just the extra sensor and will use it in another room. Problem solved.

Seems to work fine. How accurate, I don't know. With the two instruments (base and remote) side by side, temps are within one degree; humidity readings vary between 3 to 6 pts. Close enough for my household purposes.

I put the sensor in the crawl space to monitor humidity as part of addressing a mold issue. It has worked without a glitch, and sure beats crawling into the crawl space every time I want to check the humidity level.

I really liked the big display on the main unit. The convinience of being cable free meant I could transfer the main unit and remote sensor anywhere. The main drawback of this device is its inability to receive the remote sensor's readings if it is located in between a cement wall.

Does your nose burn, eyes dry....most likely your humidity is low....you have A/C well get this product and know whats going on with your humidity...no complaints on this product worked as it said.