Customer Reviews

CDN TM22-S Digital Timer & Travel Alarm Clock

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This is the best household timer that I have found.
Pluses:
1. Large LCD display
2. Easy to set timer - multiple modes (nap timer is great - quick and very easy to use.)
3. memory stores a time for repetitive tasks (e.g., baking cookies)
4. Uses a standard, easily available battery (many kitchen timers take watch-type batteries, ugh)
5. Alarm is easily heard. It sounds when timer expires, waits a short period, and then sounds alarm again. It continues to repeat until cleared. (I hate those timers that ring softly only once, or else sound continuously)
6. Can stand on counter, or magnet attaches to refrigerator. When stand is not in use, it folds in flush to the casing.

Cons:
1. Requires pushing 2 buttons simultaneously to clear a time. One button control would be preferable.
2. It beeps rather loudly every time a button is pressed.

When I unpacked this I thought it would be a great replacement for my broken travel alarm, but I've just returned from a business trip and it didn't work out well at all. There is no hard cover or case, so the buttons are exposed and get pressed accidentally in your luggage. They beep when pressed, so you get frequent beeps coming from your luggage, which would just be an annoyance, except that once the jostling managed to reset the clock to a different time and the alarm went off in the middle of the day. Also, if there is someone else in the bed with you, the fact that every button press makes a beep (including turning the alarm off) is not friendly to the other person. I love some of the features (like the nap alarm) and really wanted this to work out, but after just one trip I've already bought another clock to replace this.