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Mine runs on high for maybe ten minutes and the room holds it for a good hour after that, so the on and off fuss isn’t worth it to me. The remote ends up in the couch cushions anyway. Low and done.
Shelf placement bit me in the ass with a different heater. Warm air rises, and if the shelf sits above where you actually sit, the heat just collects near the ceiling. Mine felt useless until I dropped it lower. How high up is this shelf?
Mine are on an iPhone XR and the audio has been fine. The translation thing is what I’d actually test before keeping them, since it depends on the app more than the glasses.
Mine’s been outside since March and the one thing I noticed is the solar panel gets grimy fast, which probably matters more than rain. After a heavy storm I wiped it down and the thing perked right back up. I’d leave it out but keep an eye on the panel, rain itself hasn’t killed mine yet.
Those basic meters are useless below a few watts in my experience, the needle just sits there. I ended up borrowing a kill-a-watt style thing from a neighbor and even that was iffy on the really small stuff. Half the junk in my house wasn’t worth the effort of chasing down.
I’d keep it off the counter. Not because it’ll blow up, but because I don’t want a plug-in heater sitting where water gets splashed and hands reach across. Mine stays on a dry spot away from the sink, and I’m not moving it closer.
The light switch spot works if that hallway is actually on the path people take. Ours is by the back door where everyone dumps keys and shoes, and the tablet gets checked because you have to walk past it anyway. A spot nobody passes is a dead screen no matter how small it is.
Placement matters more than people admit. Mine sat in a spot with dead air and never caught anything until I moved it closer to the actual source. Windows aren’t the issue, but if that kitchen outlet is tucked away somewhere weird, you’re rolling the dice.
The retainer being in the way isn’t the real issue, it’s that the light isn’t going to do anything through plastic. I’ve tried stacking mine and it was pointless. Just pop it out for the session.
I’d just get a second tracker if you both actually walk the dog separately. Two people logging into one account is fine until you’re both trying to watch the same live session, then someone gets kicked or the map lags. For the money these things cost, that’s not worth the hassle.
The WineCork Pro doesn’t care how wide the bottle is, it grabs the cork not the glass. The only thing that changes is how steady you can hold the bottle while it works. If the bottle’s too fat for your hand, that’s your problem, not the opener’s.
Audio nav through these works fine if you keep the phone on you and the app running. I do it on bike rides all the time and never touch the phone. It’s just basic voice prompts though, so don’t expect anything fancy.
Mine’s basically a garden ornament unless the tap is wide open, and even then it’s nothing impressive. If your outdoor tap is weak you’re just pushing a slightly more focused trickle around. That’s the whole story.
Mine did nothing for the smell. Ran it for about six weeks and the water still smelled like a pool, so I stopped bothering with it. If the chlorine is heavy enough to notice, a showerhead isn’t going to fix that.
Charging while it runs is fine for the light, but I wouldn’t bother with the repellent side either way. That ultrasonic thing never did anything for me plugged in or not.
Heat mode works but it’s not the same as cooling. I’ve used mine on and off since February and it takes the edge off a cold room, nothing more. If you’re picturing something close to a real heater you’ll be disappointed.
Depends on the shirts. Bulky ones eat up space fast, so 4 is about the real limit. Five thin ones might squeeze in but they’ll touch.
Mine’s been plugged in for about two months and the swivel hasn’t let go. It rotates a little too freely for my taste, but the prongs stay seated in the outlet. No slipping so far.
I used one for about three months last winter, mostly for coffee and the occasional hot chocolate at work. The self-clean thing is real but it is not the magic “walk away” situation the box implies. What actually happens is you fill it with warm water, drop in a bit of soap, hit the button, and the stirring bar does a decent job on the sides and the loose stuff. Then you dump it and you are supposed to rinse. That rinse step is where it falls apart for me. If I only did the cycle and dumped it, the bottom still had a faint film and the lid gasket held onto a smell after a couple days of cocoa. I started pulling the gasket out and rinsing the lid by hand anyway, which kind of defeats the point.
The bigger issue for me was timing. If I did not run the cycle within maybe an hour of finishing the drink, the dried stuff at the bottom did not come off with just the spin. I had to scrub it with a bottle brush. So it is less a replacement for washing and more a way to loosen things up before you actually wash it.
Where it did help was protein powder. That stuff clumps and sticks, and the cycle broke it down enough that a quick rinse got it done. So for lighter drinks it is close to what they promise. For anything thick or sugary, not really.
I still hand wash mine most days. The feature is nice to have but it did not make me less lazy about dishes, which was my whole reason for buying it.
1.5 seconds is a marketing number, not a real world one. Mine does fine with short back and forth stuff, but the second someone rambles it falls apart and I end up repeating myself. That gap adds up fast when you’re actually trying to have a conversation.
Depends how close your towers are. If you’re within 25 miles or so, sure, it’ll grab the basics fine. Past that, indoor antennas get flaky and the 120 mile claim is nonsense. Check your address on a coverage map before buying.
Daytime glare is exactly what I bought mine for and I’m not impressed. They dim things a bit but calling it glare reduction is generous. A cheap pair of tinted sunglasses did basically the same thing for a third of the price, so I’d save your money unless you also drive at night.
The phone charger thing is probably just the phone not pulling as hard once it hits a certain charge level. That happens with or without one of these plugged in. Small stuff draws so little that I doubt you’d ever feel a real difference either way.
The account is the thing that matters, not the phone. I swapped devices twice with mine and the old weigh-ins were still sitting there once I logged in. Whether that holds if you jump between Android and iOS I couldn’t tell you, but the app itself didn’t wipe anything on me.
Depends what you mean by easier. Less wrist work, sure. But you still have to hold the bottle steady and line the thing up straight, and if you get that off the cork comes out at an angle. The old twist handle let me feel what was happening.