Customer Reviews

Timex Healthcare Acrobat 5-Second Oral Thermometer

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

 

 

I bought this in anticipation of a liver transplant. I knew I would have to take my temp several times a day in the weeks after the surgery. Unfortunately, this thermometer was horribly inaccurate. I could take my temperature one time and I would show that I was running a fever. I could reset it and take the temperature again and it would show that it was below normal. The fluctuation could be as much as 2 to 3 degrees at time. I even checked it against the thermometers used in the hospital and it was always off by at least 1 degree.

Very inaccurate and potentially dangerous. Don't waste your money on this one - go with BD or another tried and true medical brand. Timex needs to stick to watches.

I work in the Veterinary profession and this is the best thermometer ever! It is the fastest thermometer that I have ever found which really comes in handy for our patients. It makes things much easier on everyone involved. Fast and accurate, what more would one ask for???

I absolutely love this thermometer! I actually bought it at big lots, but I have been telling everyone how fast it is and how well it works. In fact I have put it on my baby registry so that I can have another one for the baby as well.

When it works, it does work quickly and is reasonably accurate. However, I have been through 4 of these. Once, the display showed an error. The other 3 times the button stopped pushing in. It is like the red dot became flat and there is no longer a button to push. I have purchased 2 of these and the last 2 times I contacted the company and they did replace it for free. Of course, my 4th one now is not working so I need to find a more durable thermometer.

We actually bought this when I came down with the flu and no longer had the patience for a regular glass oral thermometer. It worked once, taking about 15 seconds to come up with a fairly accurate temperature. Then it sat for about four months and the next time we tried to use it, it would not register anything but "Low." If the battery is only going to last a couple of months, then although it isn't terribly expensive, it isn't worth what little we paid. Probably would be better if it took a AAA battery and had to be held for 12 seconds.

I just spent all day worrying about my little girl because I had another brand thermometer that was reading very inconsistent. This one is reading consistently. I tested it on her as well as myself, as I don't have a fever. I was at 98.9. I think you can trust this thermometer, at least much more than other thermometers in the same price range.

This thermometer is not accurate at all. I get a temperature variation of 5 degrees when doing successive readings. It will go from 101 degrees to 96 degrees, and just jumps all around, it is totally useless as a thermometer. Yes it is fast, but by fast all they did was program it to stop reading the temperature after 3 seconds or so, which means the reading is always still fluctuating; the stupid machine will not wait long enough for the temperature to normalize so that it can get an accurate reading.

You are better off just guessing what your temperature is, that will be more accurate than this piece of garbage. The lesson perhaps is: don't buy medical equipment that is made in China.

If you are sick or your temperature is important to know for health reasons, this thermometer could kill you. No joke.

The plus side of this thermometer is that it is amazingly fast at giving you your temperature. The downside, is its accuracy does not seem to match its speed. While I don't have a good way to calibrate the thermometer, I have tried taking my temperature a couple times in succession and gotten readings that vary by more than a degree. It also, on a couple of occasions, told me that my temperature is about 120F, which is unlikely as 105-6F will kill you.

It's fast, convenient, and fairly accurate. It gives a reading in under 10 seconds. I would have given it 5 stars but it isn't 100% accurate. I took different readings only seconds apart it and it gave me three different temperatures, although they were only .2 degrees away. A mercury thermometer always gives the same reading if taken at the same time.

Fast - grade A
Convenience - grade A
Accuracey - grade B

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