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The choking part is what sold me on the longer class. My dog inhaled a piece of jerky once and I froze for a second before I remembered what to do, and that alone made the full day feel less like a waste. The vitals stuff was less useful day to day, but I did use it when he got stung by a bee and his face started swelling.
Mine actually had a handful of games already loaded on the internal storage, so I didn’t need a card just to start playing. A card only matters if you want to add your own roms later. The preloaded stuff isn’t amazing but it’s enough to mess around with.
Mine mostly just told me my average was lower than I expected, which was kind of useful once. I still check it after weird nights but I don’t think it’s the big feature I hoped for. A low score still makes me look twice even with the baseline sitting right there.
Oil changes matter way less than people make them out to sound for a small yard. I’ve run a trimmer for three seasons on basically one oil change a year and it starts on the second pull every spring. The thing that actually bites you is leaving old gas sitting in it over winter, that’s what gums up the carb.
Parking mode is what makes hardwiring actually useful, not just hiding the cable. Mine records when someone gets close to the car and I’ve caught a couple of door ding attempts that way. The drain concern is fair though, I just set a cutoff so it shuts off after a day or so.
I borrowed a pair for a week long trip and barely used the app after setup. The conversation thing just kind of happens while you talk, no passing anything around. My dad’s old handheld is still in a drawer somewhere, that thing felt like a walkie talkie.
Mine actually sat in a cabinet for about six weeks last fall and still had plenty of juice when I grabbed it. I just top it off every few uses and it’s been fine. If you’re grilling weekly I doubt you’ll have any issue.
My take is that the stage numbers are more of a rough label than a real measurement. I used a wrist tracker for about a year and the deep sleep chunk was almost always in the first half of the night, which at least matched what I’d read about sleep in general. But the actual minutes bounced around a lot from night to night with nothing changing. Same bedtime, same routine, one night 40 minutes, next night 90. That kind of swing tells me it’s estimating, not tracking something directly. The chest strap setup is measuring a different signal, so of course the numbers won’t line up. I still glance at my stages sometimes but I treat them like a weather forecast. Fine for a general sense, not something I’d build decisions around.
I’d just take the retainer out for the session. Mine fits way too snug to double up with anything else, and the light probably wouldn’t reach your gums properly through the plastic anyway. Easier to just do the red light first, then pop the retainer in after.
I usually just leave parking mode on low sensitivity so it doesn’t burn through the card on every little thing. That said, 32GB is what it is, so the real answer is it depends how busy your street is. If cars are passing all night, expect it to loop pretty fast.
I only use mine on low and it’s been fine on a normal bedroom circuit, so I can’t speak to high much. For a small office though I’d guess the low setting is enough anyway.
Mine started acting weird after maybe a week of bathroom use, the fan got noisy and it smelled a bit hot. I stopped doing that and just use it in the bedroom now. Ten minutes sounds short but the steam still gets in there.
I’d probably just try it and see, since it’s easy to install and not a huge commitment. Mine did help with the smell, though it’s not like the water suddenly smells like nothing.
I’d say the phone-finding part is more of a convenience than a real solution for someone who loses their phone constantly. It’s basically a remote that makes your phone beep, so you’re still relying on the phone being somewhere close enough to hear it. If it slid under a couch cushion or got buried in laundry, that works fine. If you left it at a friend’s place or in a store, the tag on your keys isn’t going to help you much. I think people sometimes expect it to work like a full tracking system for the phone itself, and it just isn’t that. For around the house though, it does the one job it’s supposed to do.
I shoved mine between my keyboard and a speaker, so it’s basically touching stuff on both sides and it still runs fine. It doesn’t really need clearance like a real fan would. You’ll probably end up moving it around more than you expect anyway.
Mine has been plugged into a power bank on and off for a couple months now and the light stays steady. The repellent side I can’t really speak to since I never noticed it doing much either way. But as a light while charging, no issues at all on my end.
Remote on mine has been pretty forgiving. I can hit the buttons from the kitchen while it’s sitting on the desk in the other room, no direct aim needed. Only time it gets fussy is when the battery is getting low.
Ended up ordering one anyway, so I’ll find out soon enough. Appreciate all the input, sounds like the phone thing is less of a hassle than I was picturing.
Mine actually does run off a charge for a bit. I get maybe two or three sessions before it needs to go back on the cord, so I just unplug it and use it on the carpet. It’s not something you’d haul around all day, but it doesn’t have to live next to the outlet.
I only did the first charge until the light went green, then flew it. Battery still holds fine after a few months. Overnight is probably fine once in a while, but I wouldn’t make it a habit.
I don’t buy the 176 number either. Mine didn’t connect at all in rural Costa Rica last year, just kept searching with no signal. Worked fine in San Jose though, so I think it’s real in cities and a lot of smaller spots but not everywhere.
I’d say tabletop use is more about placement than whether the thing actually works. The manual supporting it isn’t just marketing fluff, but it does assume you’ve got a reasonably solid surface and enough clearance around it. If it’s sitting on a desk and the airflow is pointed at you, that’s probably the main thing. Where people seem to get tripped up is when they put it low and then wonder why the room doesn’t feel evenly cooled or heated. It’s not really a floor or desk unit in the same way a tower fan is, so the angle matters. I don’t know how well it handles being bumped or moved around long term, but for just leaving it in one spot on a desk, it should be fine as long as the surface isn’t super slick. Not sure I’d trust it on a glass table with the airflow cranked, though.
Nah, it won’t feel like an oil radiator and that’s not a flaw in the WellHeater. Those old radiators heat the whole room slowly through the metal, so the warmth kind of sits in the air and stays put. A ceramic unit pushes warm air at you, so it feels different even if the room hits the same temp.
I had a similar switch a while back and I noticed the same thing. The ceramic one was way faster, but if I stepped out of its path it felt cooler in the room than with the radiator. Once I left it running a while and let the room actually soak it up, it evened out a lot more than I expected. Still not identical, just different.
So you’re not missing anything. It’s just how these two types behave. If you want that baked feel you’d go back to oil, but you’d also go back to waiting forever.
The bulk isn’t really the problem, in my experience. I’ve worn mine through a couple of longer spreadsheet sessions and it never blocked my hands or made typing weird. Looks a bit odd if someone walks by, but that’s about it.
I only wear mine on my right hand because my left knuckles are a bit wider and it kept sliding. Index finger fits me best, middle is fine too. I don’t really think the hand matters much as long as it doesn’t move around.
I don’t buy the idea that it’s just a fancy version of a metal pick. The vibration does something different than my hand ever did, especially on the flat front teeth where I could never get a good angle with the pick. It’s not magic on the really stuck stuff, but it’s not the same tool either.