Let down by thermometer battery
920942
A fun little gadget for people like me who imagine that when you are lost in a blizzard after fighting of a mountain lion bare handed, it will help save your life.  Until then it will probably have limited practical outdoor use - maybe limited to using the flashlight to locate the lost chocolate bar in the bottom of your backpack.  The most use I have had for it is the magnifier at home, for example reading the lettering on button cell batteries.  Which is what I did when it was time to replace my battery because the thermometer didn't work. But hang on, the replaceable batteries are for the flashlight alone and there is no possible way they can power the thermometer & there is no way I can see to replace the thermometer battery. This was confirmed by Highgear support who kindly apologised but since I am out of warranty no luck.  I used my other more useful gadget, my swiss army knife to prise off the bezel(leaving a few little gouge marks behind) and get access to the thermometer and the battery.  Just need a trip to Radioshack to get a battery and a screwdriver tiny enough to remove the battery retaining clip and superglue to fix the bezel back in place..... until the next time.
2749378
I have one of these thermometers.  They should theoretically work well, and mine did for a brief amount of time.  This was nice because it would do candy, meat, chocolate and more.  Well after about six months of heavy use its primary function now is a timer.  Which isn't exactly useful since the stove comes with one.  This has an attractive price, and is much cheaper than Pampered Chef's very similar one, but it just doesn't last for long with heavy use.  This might be the ideal purchase if you aren't going to use this too often.  I seriously doubt it will outlive the battery you place inside of this.
3273434
very promising start and I liked that i could check the temp from inside the house, but after the second day it said my pool temp was 90 degrees when it couldn't have been more than 70!  i replaced the batteries just in case, but it never started working after that.  I returned it and got the basic $8 thermometer.
2333969
Worked for about 6mos and then died. I would turn it on, and it would start reading 127 degrees, in the 65 degree air... Untrustworthy = junk for a thermometer... If I can't trust it, I won't use it.
3022643
This started out being a nice little thermometer, the display is clear and easily readable. The timer and temp alarms are nice and audible.  However, I believe the calibration was lost during the first use... It only reached a temperature of 170 degrees and when I started to bring the temperature back down it stoped at 92 and wouldn't go any lower with a room temperature of 65 degrees.  I tried resetting it, turning it off and back on and it's stuck on 92 degrees.  Guess I'll look around for something with a higher rating and spend some more coin for USA made components.
2289042
LCD display dimmer than in previously owned same thermometer.  At first I thought battery was weak.  I replaced with a tested fresh battery.  Display was still very weak.  Possible quality control issues?
1422341
Going to call someone on Monday!!!! Was working fine and suddenly the outdoor temp stopped working properly,showed 71 degrees at night when it was 36 or so. Took batteries out waited about 1/2 hr put recharged batteries in and worked seemingly for a few hrs and then back to 71 degrees .then it changed temps a few times but nothing close to what it actually was.right now it's blank and I have the outdoor unit sitting next to it. Have the same unit in fl. And haven't had a problem.  FRUSTRATING !!!!!!
3508621
Had this for 6 months and used 4-5 times. It worked just OK - I didn't feel like it was particularly accurate based on the look of the meat I was cooking. The battery died and when I replaced the battery the thermometer no longer worked. So I'll be replacing it with a different one.
3037215
Bought it in November 2017, in March 2018 after maybe 8-10 uses it was dead. I have always treated it carefully, stored it without kinking or overbending the probe wire, and have even removed batteries between uses. Today I turned it on and got a 174 degree reading even though it was on the kitchen counter. After removing the batteries and replacing them there is obviously no connection between the temperature probe and the receiver. No amount of fiddling seems to help. Now going to try pursuing warranty replacement.
3204402
Not sure if one of them has a battery that is low, but one of the thermometers keeps bouncing around to random temps. The other one works pretty well, so I'm not that concerned about it.
3913822
Great thermometer for the first two years, but the internal components fried or something - the thermometer spit out error codes and we couldn't figure out why. We tried replacing the battery but no such luck.
3480125
The sensor is supposed to "...includes a battery that can last up to 1,000 active hours." but after just four runs (12 hours exaggerating)  it is giving me a LOW BATTERY message. I live in the Dominican Republic. I received this product via mail courier a 10 days after I placed the order.  It's not possible!

Now it cost me  more than us$ 25.00 to return this product to get a either a refund or another (defective?) replacement.  At the current exchange rate of 44DOP per US, that's 15 cold ones in the dumpster!
4134076
Works as described after I put a new battery in it.  This is the only digital thermometer I've been able to find that has a swivel head, this needs to be read from a position way off the ground so being able to turn the readout 180deg is huge!

One let-down, it arrived dead as a door pin, tested the battery, output was 0.788 volts when it needs to be 1.5v.  LR44 or 357 works as a replacement.
2086655
I just purchased a replacement for the similar model which Amazon's records show I bought in 2015.  That one was still working fine with accurate readings, but I came home one day to find it had fallen and broken.  The original battery, however, was still working--through two St. Louis summers and winters.

Be forewarned, though, that you need a small (and I mean really small) Phillips screwdriver to access the battery compartment and remove the protective shield from the battery in order to set it up!
1214818
While calibrating the unit, the remote display feature would jump from 45F to 158F.  Removing the batteries reset the display but the problem reoccurred.  When it was working the indicated temperature was 3 F lower than actual temperature measured by a calibrated and traceable thermometer.  The erroneous temperature reading alone was enough to reject the unit.  Never bothered trying to calibrate the humidity sensor.  Returning the unit to Amazon.
1621796
I used this on two different turkeys, and each time it read about 70 degrees lower than the actual temperature.  I only bothered to verify the temperature as the timer went off an hour earlier than I would have expected each time.  The probe was properly inserted, the thermometer itself just wasn't working.  I've returned the item.
3141185
Bought this one to replace the original one because the thermometer stopped reading temps.  This fixed the problem but I'm only giving 3 stars because clearly it's a pos or else I wouldn't of had to replace it in the first place.  I'm sure it's only a matter of time before this one stops working and I have to buy another one.