 "Partially Broke Already???" | 2008-06-13 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1ASSFIIV22YX3 |
| Great looking clock. Looks sharp on the wall in my office, and the atomic/auto time setting feature works well. However, one week into it and the second hand stops working. The minute and hour still tell the correct time, but the second hand is stuck at :08. Not a big enough problem to send back and I really like the classic appearance. I would not hesitate to buy another one, hopefully with second hand with more that a one week life span. |
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 "Atomic (?) Clock" | 2008-05-08 |
| - Reviewed By bobm1 |
| I have been using this unit for about ten months now. The clock runs well but I have already replaced the battery once. It seems that, if the clock is fast, periodically the clock has to pace through the 12 hours to reset. The other comments about this clock not adapting to the time change are absolutely true according to my experience also. In the fall, I had relatively little problem because I set the unit to Central time instead of Eastern until the unit finally corrected for the time change about a month later. Spring time change left me an hour off since the unit has no Atlantic setting. I did get them to send me a return number but, since it would cost me to send it back, I decided that it would not be worth my returning the clock...Caveat emptor! |
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| "Nice looking; if it only worked" | 2008-04-25 |
| - Reviewed By User: AJG0Q0X1FKWZB |
| I own another La Crosse radio frequency product (weather station) and have had wonderful success with it, so I assumed their analog clock would be no different (same technology right?). While I really liked the size of the clock, the nice black on white contrast, and the readability of the time, I had to return it because the second hand would only work sporadically, often stopping for hours. I would probably have been happy had the clock simply not had a second hand at all. But before I sent it back I tried all of the recommendations by La Crosse (resetting, new battery, facing the clock toward Colorado, etc.), I even sent them an email. In the end, nothing helped, and it took their "customer support" department more than a week to respond with the same suggestions as on their written documentation. It is likely this is just a lemon, and the next one would work fine, but who wants to deal with the chance it's just a poorly built product. |
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 "Awesome clock" | 2008-04-07 |
| - Reviewed By User: A7GDE2U4QC74W |
| Read the directions and then you never need to set again. Would buy another for work. |
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 "Horrid Quality Control" | 2008-03-22 |
| - Reviewed By dleeper5 |
I bought one of these units months ago, and I was really happy with it. It's been dead-on accurate, and this design is easy to read from way across the room in dim light. So I bought two more. What an adventure. One was dead-on-arrival, and the other worked for a couple hours and then began spinning at high speed. It never stopped. I removed the battery, pressed the manual setting several times to discharge all internal capacitors, and let it sit overnight. The same thing happened again with a fresh battery that tested out at over 1.5 volts.
I sent both clocks back to Amazon and they replaced both promptly. Both were working until today. Now one of them can't set the second hand properly and it has begun spinning endlessly just like the one I sent back. The other replacement is working, but for how long?
It's a nice design, and it's reasonably priced, but until they get their quality control under control (!), I won't waste any more time on clocks from Lacrosse ... I'll try their competition instead ... |
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| "No springing forward here" | 2008-03-10 |
| - Reviewed By User: A1NLCXTJHNFUVZ |
| My other atomic clocks all updated themselves today to reflect the time change. I am wondering what radio is controlling this particular clock. I tried taking out the battery and reinserting it per the directions and still the clock updates itself one hour behind. I urge you not to purchase this clock if you are buying it so you can have a clock that will automatically update itself and keep corect time. If the clock is truly radio controlled, there is no reason that it should take up to five days to set the correct time as other reviewers here suggest. |
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| "cool clock" | 2008-03-09 |
| - Reviewed By stevenphelps |
| I have been waiting til the time change to make this review so here it is. It works great!! I like it alot! |
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| "Perfect Office Clock" | 2008-02-19 |
| - Reviewed By User: A3RO6Z7WI0032B |
Whats not to like about this clock? Its 10" in diameter, powered by a single AA battery, and Radio Controlled. Just press your timezone button and hang it on the wall. I love it.
One caveat: When you first press the timezone button, you might have to wait a whole 24 hours for the clock to set correctly. Since then, however, I have not had to reset or fuss with the clock at all. |
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| "Very unreliable" | 2008-02-14 |
| - Reviewed By herodotus9 |
We recently purchased 2 of the La Crosse 10-inch clocks. One of them is completely unable to set itself to the correct time, and if I manually set it, it will go back to the homing position (at 4, 8, or 12) within a day or so. The other one works a bit better - it only goes to the homing position about once per week and eventually catches the radio signal and sets to the correct time. Occasionally it spins forward 11 hours 59 minutes, presumably because it was running 1 minute fast. Apparently spinning back 1 minute is beyond this clock's capability.
We live in Seattle, on the top of a hill with no major electrical wires in the vicinity. There's no good reason I can think of why these clocks should not be able to receive the signal. In fact, we have another La Crosse clock that we purchased about 3 years ago that works perfectly.
Despite the theoretical benefits of these clocks, and the actual benefit when they work properly, we do not plan to purchase any more La Crosse clocks.
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 "Good value but some issues...." | 2008-02-14 |
| - Reviewed By alex_cash |
| The clock is a good value, but does occasionally exhibit some annoying behavior. Maybe once a week, the time will change by random differences that can't be attributed to the wrong time zone. Taking the battery out, reinserting, letting the clock get the signal, and then manually resetting the time zone corrects the problem. |
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