A Lemon? or is this a more serious reliability issue.
933370
I'm returning this for warranty service the second (actually third) time.  In all instances the problem appears to be a problem with the heart rate monitor.  It stops working, and a notice displays on the wrist band, "check heart rate monitor".  The occurrences of this begins infrequently, then becomes more frequent.  I can usually stop and restart the monitoring, and then encounter the message after ten minutes. (of course, once you stop and restart you lose the accumulating data).  I've tried replacing the batteries in both the wrist band and monitor.  The first time I returned it for this problem they sent the unit back having determined that the wrist unit was bad.  It immediately had the same monitor failure.  I sent it back again and they re-diagnosed it to be a failure of the heart rate monitor.  The "repaired" set up started failing the same way again six months later.  At this point I can only conclude that this is a lemon or this product has a serious reliability issue.
3439679
Mine just died on me.  It occassionally misfired when I clicked the sequence button to start up, but no biggie.  But now it's coming on and making a jammed clicking noise, unending, the voltmeter goes whacko at the beginning and nothing works, nor can I push any of the buttons individually to get a response.  I bought mine new, and it's lasted several years, but they've since sort of dissolved the business, so I wouldn't buy a used one if I were you.
4496501
no sound after 4 months. i must rate this as a lemon at best, or perhaps it is just garbage
636490
Mine was the same experience as most others, failed immediately out of the box.  Unfortunately, I waited a while to install it, and it was beyond the return date for Amazon.  I also didn't read the reviews before purchasing, probably wouldn't have done so.  2 strikes against me...
1259724
Well, seems I am not the only one. My Smartpro 1500VA is just over a year old now. From the beginning I too never saw a full charge on the LCD readout but everything seemed to work ok. I'm using it with a home theater system and I'm well under max wattage.  Over the course of the past year I experienced a few power failures and brown outs and probably a voltage spike or two.  Everything seemed fine but the unit never powered the system (HD projection TV, AV receiver, DVD player, Satellite DVR) on battery mode for more than 1.5 minutes.  Less than advertised for a non full load.  So scramble to shut things down if you have one of these and the power goes out, you cannot be sure when it will run out of juice and simply shut off.

But then, after @ 6 months ownership I started to notice strange things.  Like when I would come home from work all my settings in the TV and AV Receiver would be reset.  The TV says a "Power Failure Has Occured".  And there were no thunderstorms or commercial power outages, which had me scratching my head since I knew I had a seemingly working UPS system in place.

Then it started happening more frequently.  Finally, one day recently I was actually home watching a movie when all of a sudden, all power to my home theater just dropped.  The UPS started clicking like crazy and the LCD screen was wiggin out, dimming and brightening.  Then it would beep a couple times then abruptly restore all power and behave normally for a few seconds, long enough for the TV and receiver to get well into their startup cycle...then it happened again, abruptly dumping all power.  It started to happen a third time before I could get to everything and power it all down and unplug the UPS.  I guess it had been doing this for a long while when nobody was around to witness it but it made it even worse when I had the TV and AV Receiver stuff turned on as I feared some serious damage was being done.  I took the UPS out and contacted Tripp-Lite and lets just say the matter is still unresolved but thank God no damage to my components, this time.

This UPS did exactly what is was supposed to protect against and became a serious threat to my expensive electronic components.  I think there is a real problem with this line of product.  As another reviewed said, stick with APC as they are more proven (I have used APC for computing assets for well over 10 years with no problems like this ever occurring).  Also, there is good word on the various home theater forums regarding the Monster UPS which are as expensive as APC but seem to work well and are made specifically for home theaters.

Bottom line:  If you are going to try to protect thousands of dollars worth of electronic equipment...do not go cheap by buying low cost power management devices.
3401314
I cannot for the life of me understand the positive reviews on this clunker. I got it for my birthday last year and noticed soon thereafter that it had a tendency to freeze. "Silk browser is not responding, would you like to close?" So I would close and restart and it would happen all over again. After putting up with this sorry state of affairs for several months, I wrote about my frustrations using the feedback feature. Customer service was prompt and worked with me for about two weeks resetting and registering etc etc, before offering to replace the device. But guess what - this new one is doing the very same thing! Could I possibly have received two lemons? Aaaargh!
989014
No, folks, it isn't you, it's the set!  I've had mine a little over three months and it's in a closet.  One day it worked, a few hours later it didn't.  Philips is bad in the response catagory, and Best Buy bows out after 14 days ...

I think Philips needs to get concerned about a class-action on this lemon!  I'll never buy another Philips-anything, and I'll never buy from BB again either.
1181670
Maybe this is just bad luck. But we ordered a new model.  It didn't turn on.  Two hours with Toshiba troubleshooting.  Not very helpful, despite that the serial # HAD ALREADY BEEN REGISTERED.  Amazon, however, seemed genuinely embarrassed and sent us a new one within 24 hours.

The new one lasted about three hours.  Windows 8 problem? Toshiba problem?  Frankly, don't give a damn at this moment.  After four  days of frustration, we are out $30 in shipping fees after returning two defective (supposedly) brand new Toshiba U-945 series laptops.
1427731
Total lemon.  I can't understand why it takes literally 3-4 minutes to cold boot? Oh now I know the card drive was failing.  No warranty, $400 paper weight
445353
FIRST ONE WAS JUNK ,REPLACED IT SO FAR SO GOOD ?
3792497
I think I may have received a lemon. The appearance of the product was nice. The screen is big, easy to swivel, and has locking mechanism to hold the disc cover closed instead of a push button.  However, the speakers did not work and the battery did not hold any charge after 10 hours of being plugged into the wall.  I ordered this while on vacation for our return trip home since our other one broke on the trip down.  Returned it to amazon as soon as we were home.

Update (6/30/17):
The seller contacted me and sent a replacement.  It works perfectly.  The speakers are loud and the battery holds a full charge after being charged for 6 hours.  The seller was easy to work with and responded to questions quickly.  I suggest contacting them directly for a replacement if you have one that seems to not be working properly.
2135524
Usually, when you have a problem with a computer component, you call the vendor during the warranty period, you get an RMA, send it in, get it fixed or replaced and then continue with your life. Not so fast with this particular motherboard. I have had 4 (you have read that right) RMAs with this motherboard already since I have purchased it in March of 2017. I had it working for less than two days total. Two last replacements had exactly(!) the same problem: would not even power on with any memory present in the bottom slot though working perfectly fine with any of the memory modules used if only the top (second) slot is occupied. The serial numbers on the last two replacements are just four numbers apart (like 0045 vs 0049). Very disappointing experience. Something has happened to the Asus we all used to know.
529737
Some of these have a charging issue.  Some are ok.  I got the lemon.  If you get this test it for charging.  If you have issues on charging return it immediately and get another one.  If the charging is not perfect all of the time return it.  After a month it will probably fail.
4814616
It seemed to work well until it didn't. I called the company to see if they had any insight to getting it working again and their response was: buy a new one, buy a refurbished one for almost price of a new one, or pay to send it to us to fix which is $25 labor minimum +parts. I get it, we live in America where everything is cheap and isn't warrantied for more than a year. However, I would expect a little more than this. Look for another brand.
1713945
The battery ran out so I charged it. No big deal. Now it will not resync! I called the manufacturing company and tried all the trouble shooting instruction. Still nothing! Now the second one has stopped working. I unfortunately got a lemon
1590284
Bought two, one failed open (intermittently) after 6 weeks.  Naturally just outside of Amazons return window.  Diagnosising the new part was a PITA, since I didn't expect the new part to fail so soon.  Cannot recommend.  I'm going to put the OEM one back (I replaced two solenoids on the car even though only one had failed ... I trust the original solenoid with 140,000 more than this part ... So I'll probably just eat the cost, since I really don't want a replacement, which is probably all the mfg will offer
155045
high defect rate. Had two of three that wouldn't work