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Mine fits okay but I wouldn’t call it adjustable in any real sense. It bends a little going in and that’s about it, so if your mouth is genuinely small it’s still going to feel like a mouthguard sitting in there. I’ve had worse, but I also wouldn’t buy it expecting it to mold to you.
Mine did pull from a bucket the few times I tried it, but it felt like more hassle than it was worth and I went back to the garden tap. It works, just not something I’d want to do every weekend. The bucket thing is fine for a quick rinse and that’s about it for me.
I mostly play short bursts on the couch so I’d rather keep everything on one card and not mess with internal storage. Less sorting that way when I want to swap stuff out.
For me the deciding factor would be whether you could handle a middle of the night issue without a store run, since long shifts can leave you wiped. A small kit covers the everyday stuff, but a few extra basics for a bad cut or a pet that won’t stop vomiting earn their space. You don’t need a whole shelf of gear.
The app mostly matters for the first setup. After that the camera is fine on its own, so clipping it to the bike and pressing the button is all I do now.
I had a small fan clipped up on a shelf once and the airflow mostly went sideways, not down. You end up tilting the thing toward you and losing half the point. At least it frees up desk space though, which is why I kept trying it for a while.
The subscription actually made me a worse pet owner in a way. I had it for about eight months and got so used to just scooping and moving on that I stopped paying attention to anything. When the company quietly changed the formula, I didn’t notice for weeks. My dog got pickier and I just assumed he was being dramatic. That bugged me more than the cost or the time ever did. So I switched to cooking and honestly it’s been fine, but not because I’m some meal prep wizard. I just do a big pot twice a week and he’s happy. The part I didn’t expect is that I actually look at what I’m feeding him now. Not in a fancy nutrient chart way, just in a I know this is chicken and this is rice kind of way. That’s worth something to me. Where the subscription still wins is when I’m traveling or when work gets stupid busy. I’ve had a couple weeks where the pot didn’t happen and he ate kibble from the corner store. So I don’t think it’s a permanent switch either way.
I tried something similar for keeping my gardening stuff in a drafty old garage, and the plain box part was fine but the vent was where I went wrong. It didn’t stop damp, it just let it wander in and settle on everything inside. What actually made a difference for me was keeping the box off the floor on a couple of bricks and putting a cheap lidded plastic tub inside for the charger itself. The box still keeps the worst of the dust and cobwebs off, and having it up off the concrete helped more than the vent ever did. I travel for weeks at a time too, and the setup has sat there for about two years now without the charger going funny. I’d say the wooden box is a decent outer shell but don’t count on it for moisture. The vent isn’t doing you any favors.
I gave up on keeping things separate and just accepted that some sliding is going to happen. What worked for me was stopping the whole pile at once instead of each item. I keep a cheap plastic milk crate wedged in the back corner of my Fit, not strapped or anything, and the tall sides mean the cables and kit stay in there even when things shift. The crate itself moves an inch or two on hard turns, but nothing falls out and I never have to dig. Took me a while to get there because I kept trying to make individual items stay put, which was the wrong approach for a shallow trunk. Not saying it looks great, it’s just a crate sitting there, but it’s held up for a couple years now and cost me nothing since I already had one. The one downside is it eats a chunk of the floor space, so if you carry a lot of groceries it might bug you.
The 180 days thing is basically best case scenario. I had a similar scale from another brand that claimed 6 months and it really only made it about 8 weeks before I got tired of charging it. With the Herz P1, the handle part is what eats the battery faster since it has to power the extra sensors for the full body scan. If you’re doing that every morning, I’d guess you’re looking at 2 months tops before it needs a charge. Not terrible but also not the number they throw on the box. The plus side is a charge doesn’t take forever, so it’s more of a minor annoyance than a real problem.
I’d wait until you can actually find the warranty terms in writing before buying. If they don’t clearly list coverage somewhere on the site, that tells you enough about how easy a claim would be later. I’d rather put that money toward something with a clear return window than gamble on a mask with vague support.
Mine lathered less for a bit but it evened out eventually. I didn’t change anything else, so I just figured it was the filter settling in. If it’s still off after another week or so, maybe check your shower pressure separately.
Mine doesn’t really lag during runs, but I also don’t trust it for interval stuff. The thing that bugs me more is it seems to miss the first minute or two when my heart rate jumps up quickly, like it catches up eventually but the peak is usually lower than what my chest strap shows. For easy runs it’s close enough and I like not having to wear a watch. But if I’m actually trying to stay in a specific zone I’d rather use something else. So it’s fine for general fitness, just not something I’d rely on for anything precise.
I don’t buy the offline thing either, at least not the way it’s advertised. Mine needed the app to even start up and that pretty much killed the idea of using it somewhere with no signal.
Mine went about 13 months before the top part started feeling rough, so I swapped it. It wasn’t broken, just didn’t feel clean anymore no matter what I did. I’d say a year is realistic if you take care of it.
Mine’s been on a strip since spring and the little green light still comes on, so it’s obviously getting power fine. The only thing I’d check is whether the strip has a switch, since bumping that off would kill it without you noticing.
It takes up the port, so yeah you can’t have both plugged in at once. I just leave mine in and unplug it on the rare occasion I need to scan something. Not a big deal but it’s not like you can run both at the same time.
Mine was actually ready to go right out of the box, which surprised me. I used it for a couple of days before I even bothered putting it on the dock. So no, you don’t have to charge it first if you don’t want to.
I mostly do 3 shirts at a time and they come out fine, but I don’t think 5 is realistic if you want them actually dry and not creased. Small loads are kind of the whole point with these things. Trying to squeeze more in just makes it take longer.
The curved one is really for the side or top of the helmet shell, not the flat front. I stuck mine on the side and it held fine for a couple months. After that the adhesive got a bit loose, so it’s not something I’d trust forever.
I’ve had mine for a couple months and I unplug it in the morning, but that’s mostly habit from living in old places with sketchy wiring. The unit itself has never felt hot at the plug or anything. Whether it’s “normal” to leave it in, no clue, but I don’t think you’d be the only one doing it.
Standard cases are overrated for this. I went with a slightly larger size instead and stopped wrestling with the corners. Maybe my case is the odd one out, but standard just never sat right on mine.
Fair enough, sounds like it’s one of those things where you either use it or you don’t. I’ll probably grab one and see how it goes for a month. If it ends up in a drawer, at least it wasn’t a huge purchase.
I don’t find the stabilizers restrictive at all compared to a plain sleeve. The sleeve is the one that always felt stiff to me because it bunches when you bend. The DrFlexa moves with you better even with the side pieces.
I stopped buying my usual glass and counter spray after about a month with mine. That was the surprise for me, since I figured I would still reach for the bottle out of habit. I use it on the stove hood and the microwave pretty often and the steam lifts that thin greasy film fine, then I just wipe it with a cloth. What actually changed my mind was how much less I cough when I clean now. The sprays always got to me after a while. I still grab a bottle for the really baked on stuff at the bottom of the oven, but that is maybe twice a year. For everyday kitchen mess it has replaced most of what I used to buy, and I did not expect that at all.
I’d stick with the magnet and just be picky about where I put it. I’ve used mine in a few rentals and the walls are hit or miss, but the headboard and the mini fridge have never let me down. Those are the spots I trust because they’re actually magnetic. The painted wall thing is real though, mine slid down slowly one night on a textured wall and I found it on the floor in the morning. Still worked fine, no crack or anything, but the sound of it dropping woke me up. So I just stopped using it on walls entirely. If I really want it up high I’d probably go adhesive, but then you deal with the residue and I’m not into scraping stuff off someone else’s property. For a hotel room I’d rather lose the angle than deal with that.
I’ve used the old twist nozzle for years, the basic brass one you get at any hardware store, and that thing has maybe two usable settings before it just turns into a mist or a jet. So when I saw the 360 thing I figured it would be the same deal with fancier wording. My brother picked one up a while back and I messed with it while he was filling his bird bath, and the range is wider than I expected. Not dramatic like a pressure washer, but the low end is soft enough that it doesn’t blast the dirt into the flower beds, and the higher end does put more of a concentrated stream where you point it. The sweet spot on his is somewhere in the middle and you can actually feel it change as you turn it, which I can’t say for my old nozzle.
That said, I don’t think most people will use the full 360 range. You find the setting you like for whatever you’re doing and leave it there. I turned it maybe three times total and then stopped fiddling. So it’s real, not a gimmick exactly, but I wouldn’t buy it just for that feature.
The part I actually noticed was the quick connect. His old one always leaked at the faucet and this one didn’t, which mattered more to me than the dial.
