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Springfield's 91746 Wireless Soil Moisture Meter with Freeze Alert measures indoor and outdoor temperatures and soil moisture. Functions such as a high/low temperature alert to help protect your plants and garden. The memory function to recall the highest and lowest temperature readings make this a perfect accessory for any gardener. For convenience, the base station can sit on a table top or be wall mounted. Unit includes a low battery indicator.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
This product took a little bit of time to read through the manual to understand how it works - but it does work ! I have had the same one for 6 years now....and it worked this fall. The other reviewers might have got duds....I did not.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
I had no problem with connection, only 30ft I was using at.
The temp meter slow to change but seem to work, however the moisture meter part is crazy. It may measure it correctly when you push it into the ground, but after a while it will just go dry. Even when it raining for 2 days.
Maybe it gets air between the sensor and the ground I don't know, but it doesn't work.
The temp meter slow to change but seem to work, however the moisture meter part is crazy. It may measure it correctly when you push it into the ground, but after a while it will just go dry. Even when it raining for 2 days.
Maybe it gets air between the sensor and the ground I don't know, but it doesn't work.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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This product was a disappointment. It appeared to be everything I need to monitor my gardens for approaching freeze conditions, and the soil dryness monitoring would have been a bonus.
But even though spaced at most 50 feet away in a window with a clear line of site, the longest it ever held a connection between the inside and outside pieces was two days. Most of the time connection was lost as soon as I went in the house, even in a window 39 feet away. I think if you spaced it just a few feet away from a window, with absolutely no plants or anything else in the way, it might work.
Up here in the Rockies I have quite a temperature range in my gardens based on air flow and proximity to rock walls or house walls. So I need to be able to monitor the temperature in the garden, not just air temperature near the house. Also, the weather forecast can sometimes be way off. A week ago we had a forecast for a nice day and I'd planned on working in the gardens. I woke up to subfreezing temperatures and several inches of snow on the ground. If this product had worked, I could at least have pulled the plants on my deck indoors, and perhaps covered a few favorite flowering plants in the gardens with frost quilt.
This appears to be low end product. The first one I received had the tiny screws so tight it was impossible to open the battery compartment on the outdoor unit. None of even my eyeglass screwdrivers had a head small enough to do the job right, either. For someone serious about gardening and frost protection, a well designed product would be the only way to go even it it were significantly more expensive.
This product oompares poorly to the Oregon Scientific indoor/outdoor thermometers which I've used for years and have an amazing range even through several stories and walls. However they don't have the alarm or soil moisture functions.
I have returned this item twice, once because I couldn't get the battery compartment open, and the second one because it wouldn't maintain connection. Amazon has been wonderful about both returns.
But even though spaced at most 50 feet away in a window with a clear line of site, the longest it ever held a connection between the inside and outside pieces was two days. Most of the time connection was lost as soon as I went in the house, even in a window 39 feet away. I think if you spaced it just a few feet away from a window, with absolutely no plants or anything else in the way, it might work.
Up here in the Rockies I have quite a temperature range in my gardens based on air flow and proximity to rock walls or house walls. So I need to be able to monitor the temperature in the garden, not just air temperature near the house. Also, the weather forecast can sometimes be way off. A week ago we had a forecast for a nice day and I'd planned on working in the gardens. I woke up to subfreezing temperatures and several inches of snow on the ground. If this product had worked, I could at least have pulled the plants on my deck indoors, and perhaps covered a few favorite flowering plants in the gardens with frost quilt.
This appears to be low end product. The first one I received had the tiny screws so tight it was impossible to open the battery compartment on the outdoor unit. None of even my eyeglass screwdrivers had a head small enough to do the job right, either. For someone serious about gardening and frost protection, a well designed product would be the only way to go even it it were significantly more expensive.
This product oompares poorly to the Oregon Scientific indoor/outdoor thermometers which I've used for years and have an amazing range even through several stories and walls. However they don't have the alarm or soil moisture functions.
I have returned this item twice, once because I couldn't get the battery compartment open, and the second one because it wouldn't maintain connection. Amazon has been wonderful about both returns.
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