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Product Description: * Forecast icons display 12 to 24 hour weather forecast * Automatically sets itself to the US Atomic Clock, never needs adjusting for Daylight Saving Time * Displays the indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity * Barometric pressure reading * 3 levels of pressure and temperature indicators including Rising, Steady, or Falling * Moon phase indicator * HiGlo Electro-luminescent backlight * Comfort Level and Heat Index indicators * High/Low Temperature and Humidity alarm * Heat Index reading * Ice Alert * Crescendo alarm with snooze function * Wireless sensor LCD displays humidity and temperature * Three-channel temperature and humidity channel capabilities, additional sensors required * -22 deg. F to 140 deg. F outdoor sensor temperature range
Oregon Scientific BAR388HGA Wireless Weather Station with Temperature/Humidity Display and Self-Setting Atomic Clock, Black Features:
- Desktop or wall-mounting, wireless weather station with black frame
- Displays indoor and remote temperature and humidity
- Exhibits moon phases, weather forecast, and weather trends
- Includes remote sensor with 100-foot range; reads up to 3 sensors
- Measures 4.7 by 6.7 inches (W x H); main console runs on 3 AA batteries, sensor takes 2 AAA batteries
Customer Reviews:
- Pretty good, but too many annoying bugs: Pros:
+ The temperature and humidity readings for indoors and the remote outdoor sensor seem to be accurate, and are easy to read.
+ I like the atomic clock syncing!
Cons:
- The weather forecast feature is a joke. It frequently predicts Rain, even if the humidity is below 20%! I'm guessing that the predicted weather is based purely on the barometric pressure, but at least here in Tucson, AZ, it doesn't work at all.
- It's not obvious at first glance which temperature/humidity values are for the indoor sensor, and which for outside. I wish the indicator icons for this were bigger.
- In Arizona, we don't participate in Daylight Savings Time. This device apparently doesn't know that, because the displayed time is now an hour ahead ever since the rest of the country went on savings time.
- It isn't possible to hang the unit on the wall like I was hoping to do. It bulges out in the back, so it has to sit on a flat surface.
Wish:
* I like the "trend arrow" next to the temperature and humidity values, but it would be *really* cool to have a weather station that kept an internal log of these measurements that I could download to my computer. Heck, throw a 802.11 chip in there and let me interface with it on my wireless lan. - Impossible to review when it arrives broken: The Amazon reseller in this care - ANT Technologies - shipped a broken product and has yet to reimburse me for the item. There are a lot of cracks in this Amazon marketplace .... I strongly recommend staying away from anything sold by ANT
- Great value with both indoor and outdoor RH: I follow another reader's comment and use Lithium battery for the outdoor unit, it has been working fine for nearly half a year (the past few months approx. 14F(-10C) outdoor). For most residential homes (wooden construction), the radio frequency can pass through nearly all walls without degradation (if you are in an apartment with reinforced concrete floor, the steel bar will reduce the coverage quite significantly). I put it under the awning on the side of the house that is not facing the sun. The reading is consistent with my other weather stations. (due to difference in wind speed, approx. 2F difference in reading between ground and 2nd floor under winter high wind is expected).
Always put both indoor and outdoor units at the same location for the first day or two to ensure the product is working (readings are in sync.), on your first use, or battery reset. - A great weather station for the price: I have had this weather station for three months, and so far it has worked very well. Even the forecasting has been correct most of the time, which is fantastic for a barometer based system. Where else can you get all of these features, including the radio-controlled clock, for such a reasonable price. And the things looks good too.
Update - I decided I wanted a second remote so I purchased the BAR688HGA (white) so I could get both an additional weather station and remote for less than the cost of the remote itself. Both remotes and weather stations are within one tenth of a degree of each other, and the humidity readings are within 5 percentage points, well within specifications. I keep one station in the living room and the other in the bedroom, with one remote on the north side of the house and one on the south to measure the warmer side.
Both units work wonderfully. I think people have trouble with the forecasting part because they don't set the elevation properly. Once I had the elevation set in the new unit, they both predicted exactly the same weather and continued to be correct about 80-90% of the time, as good as AccuWeather, which has its home offices is just a block down the street.
- Oregon Scientific BAR388HGA Wireless Weather Station: Like the wizard it can foretell the future. The weather future that is. The Instrument arrive in a timely manner and in excellent shape. It was easy to set up and although I placed the remote sensor insight of the station I don't believe it's necessary to do so in order to get a good signal. For the value it's a great instrument and handy to have. It actually provides you an advance projection ( in graphic form) of the next days weather. Read the directions and it's easy to set up. Although I purchased lithium batteries for the instrument, I've had regular alkaline batteries in it for the last six weeks and it's been real cold. The bad news ( real bad), It doesn't have a backlight You need a light to see it at night or low light. I thought it did. I haven't sent it back because it works for me and besides I just didn't read the description carefully. There are similar models if you can get one for a good price with a backlight make sure you look on the Manufacturers website for specials.
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