Avoid this Cheap and Quiet timer that Locks-Up.
Written: Jan 16 '04
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Pros: 3 Count-down Timers; 1 Count-up Timer; 1 Clock; Magnet On Back; Easy To Read Display
Cons: Freezes or Locks-Up; Quiet and Hard to Hear Alarms; Unresponsive Buttons; Soft Plastic Cover;
The Bottom Line: Avoid this Cheap and Quiet timer that Locks-Up!
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| jakfrost's Full Review: Polder Triple Kitchen Timer-Clock |
Conclusion: Avoid this cheaply made timer. It has little buttons that are unresponsive to presses. It is too quiet to hear. It also has a tendency to frequently lock-up or freeze, like your computer does, and stop counting time, requiring a battery removal for reset.
Cheap: The timer is made very cheaply in China out of soft plastic. The buttons are unresponsive and jiggle in their holds. Unless they pressed exactly in the center they do not work and often times you have to press them multiple times hard to make them work.
Quiet: The timer's alarms are very quiet and hard to hear. With the pots cooking and even a little water running it is hard to hear it when it goes off. If you happen to put your dish cloth on top of the timer, then you won't even know that it went off.
Freezes: Worst of all after a few months of dealing with this timer the real serious problem came up. It started locking-up and freezing just like a computer does. It would stop counting down time and just sit there, completely frozen. I burned a few dishes this way when the timer didn't go off. To this fix this problem, I had to take the batteries out and put them back in to reset the unit. Changing the timer's battery to a new one didn't solve the problem. It became progressively worse and started occurring more frequently, now when you sometimes pressed a button to start or stop one of the timer counts it would completely freeze and require a reset.
Defective: I am not the only person that had this problem with locking up, another reviewer Colin Bowness from Weston, MA USA had this to say: "When little more than a year old our timer failed with the display locking up.". Hearing another user reporting the same problem as myself it l looks like I did not just have one defective unit, it looks like the problem is more widespread with other units also. The worst thing about this is that the timer was working fine until the problem started happening many months after the purchase and it became progressively worse, further showing the poor quality of the manufacturing.
I really liked the functionality of this timer since it allowed three count-down timers, one count-up timer, and a clock to run at the same time, giving me a lot of information for the many dishes that I was cooking. However, I have to be honest with my experiences with this timer so I had to write a negative review of it. Now I'm back and looking for another timer to purchase.
Recommended:
No
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