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 Great clock for the price! July 12, 2007
John Paquette (Boston, MA, USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
1. Atomic accuracy.
2. Indoor thermometer.
3. Projects the time on the ceiling (in red, for view in the dark only)
4. Very readable LCD display.
5. Snooze alarm.
All for about 20 bucks!
You can adjust the brightness of the projection (three levels plus "off"). As well, you can rotate the on-ceiling time display in 90-degree increments so it works if the clock is set up behind you, in front of you, or to either side of you. I have no clue how they made this possible (a mirror? a motor? two displays?), but it works great.
AND you can rotate the projector forward and back so you can project on a wall if you wish.
When I bought this I was worried about focus. Don't. It is fixed focus for any distance over about 4 feet. No worries about focus.
You can display seconds on the LCD clockface, but not through the projection display, which is just 4 digits and a colon.
It will work without the (included!) AC adapter, except that the ceiling projection will not be continuous. It'll turn on momentarily when you press the snooze button.
No complaints except there's no way I can find to *manually* set the seconds to zero at the new minute.
A hint: don't power up the clock until it is pretty late at night, like around midnight. Receiving the atomic clock signal is hard during the day, and you may find it hard to bear waiting for the clock to set itself if you power it up before bedtime. I'm not sure how reliably the clock will set itself if you lose patience and set it manually.
A very nice, fun clock at a great price!
 nice clock May 18, 2007
S. Taylor (Detroit, MI)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
it works as advertised. I can only see the projected time on the ceiling when it is very dark, but it's not that important to me.
I bought this because of the automatic setting with the atomic clock, and use the time to set my manual watches. It does update ever night. However, this clock doesn't display the seconds, which I didn't notice before I ordered it. My fault, not the clock's.
 Works as advertised; some poor design features March 7, 2008
S. Hirozawa (San Jose, CA USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Not surprisingly, I chose this clock for 3 reasons: it sets itself, it projects the time on the ceiling/wall, and it's quite inexpensive. After a needlessly painful setup (more on that later) it set its own time, and the time projected on the ceiling is easy to read with my glasses on (just barely readable w/o glasses).
The first problem I encountered was plugging the power supply into the clock. It uses a standard coaxial DC power connector that plugs into a socket on the bottom of the clock. Unfortunately, the hole through which you access the socket is not only much larger than the socket, but so much larger than the socket housing (a box containing the socket connector) that unless you have sharp eyes and carefully align the plug with the socket, the plug will slip into the gap between the socket housing and the hole in the clock case.
After getting the power connected, I left for work, and when I returned, the clock showed the correct time--only off by 3 hours. OK, so I needed to set the time zone. There are no buttons labeled "time zone", "TZ" or anything similar. A quick check of the manual (don't lose that manual!) revealed an unintuitive process for setting the time zone (typical of devices that don't have enough buttons):
1. Hold down the "Mode" button for 3 seconds. The currently selected time zone will be displayed.
2. Click the "Mode" button until your time zone appears.
3. Click the "Snooze" button.
Despite its poor design features, this clock basically works as advertised and is inexpensive. Since most of the time, you won't need to touch it, if you can read relatively dim, red 3" numbers on your ceiling, then it's probably a good choice. Just don't lose the manual!
 Disappointed June 2, 2007
Catherine S. Grills
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
We gave this clock as a gift and are very disappointed in the way it performs. We thought this clock would continuously project the time on the ceiling as ours does. It turns out you have to push a button to get the projection - defeating the purpose. If you have to find the clock on the nightstand and press a button, why not just go ahead and look at the clock to get the time?
Not the greatest, but decent. September 21, 2007
Old Hat
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
I bought a few of these other clocks some years ago, gave most away as gifts, and all agree that they are the best alarm clocks around, more or less.
La Crosse Technology WT-5720U Projection Alarm Clock with Indoor Temperature
So I gave my last one away, like a fool, and bought myself this one as a replacement. Big mistake. I really miss my old clock:
The buttons don't press as good. You'll know what I mean if you know.
The old clock had ADJUSTABLE SNOOZE! This is a great feature. This new one has it locked at 6 minutes. Which sucks. Takes me a good 10 minutes to get back into that valuable deep sleep that makes the different some mornings, but the point is you can set it to whatever you want!
Old clock has 2 alarms! Meaning the wifey and I could wake up at different times, or tons of other uses.
Old clock has ascending alarms! Starts off slower and quieter, and builds, then finally shuts off after maybe 5 minutes.
Other than that, pretty similar. Matter of fact, I think I'll buy the older clock again, try to give this one away to some poor fool who doesn't know any better! Ha!
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