It's a great piece but the manual is a kind of joke
596663
Really?? I can't use it... I have an iphone 6 and this "thing" doesn't work... It's a great piece but the manual is a kind of joke, and I've been looking for a driver or something to see it working but ... nothing!!
1443062
nicely designed product but the book is smaller than the regular collectors edition guide. I have not gone through each manual page by page yet, but I wonder what Prima Left out of the HD version of the manual that they had in the standard collector's edition. Not a huge deal but it did make me wonder what value the new manual offers that the old collectors manual didn't. If you bought the box set I would recommend skipping this particular guide from a functional perspective.
1352926
item works great but could really use an english-speaking person to translate the user manual.
372541
It has some great concepts for people to add to their daily lives, but the book which is claimed to be a manual comes across as if it was written by a person seeking attention.
924564
Mine came without an instruction manual and the battery compartment refused to open without a screw driver and some serious effort (there are no screws, it was just stubborn), so I was annoyed with my Rapitest right out of the gates, which probably colors the rest of my review.

I was able to find the instructions on the Luster Leaf website, under "downloads" and "instructions."  Fancy that!  The instructions are VITAL, so hit the website up if you've lost yours or if your rapitest kit was similarly lacking.

There are separate instructions for veggies and decorative plants.  The decorative plants have a watering schedule attached, and the veggies do not.  Perhaps veggies just get checked for water needs all the time - that makes sense to me, but since this is my first year with a container garden, I would like it if they said so!

I had few other complaints with the instructions.  They're short but detailed, and list all the "normal" veggies I'm growing.  I really didn't expect some of the weird herbs and veggies to be on there . . . though if Luster Leaf had included a translation to an absolute scale, I could make a slightly more educated guess.  I'm going to go out on a limb and presume that 1.0 means 10% moisture (by volume? of saturation?) and 9.9 means I have some dirt in my water bucket, but since they didn't really say, I'm guessing again.  *sigh*  For "weird" flora not covered in the handy dandy manual, I suggest finding a more common plant with similar water needs, and using that part of the chart rather than trying to math your way through with incomplete data.

Alright, enough of the instructions, let's go back to the device:  It WILL corrode.  The instructions warn you not to keep it in moisture when you're done, and to wipe it off between readings. Makes sense.  Since I didn't have the instructions for the first night, I left it in a pot that read roughly "2" (readings will bounce all over a finite range as you probe pockets of moisture with your tool), and sure enough the metal shaft is speckled with oxidation.  It doesn't impact the function of the device, but I consider myself warned.

Now for my last complaint:  batteries!  Three watch batteries!  Yergh!  I see no reason why they couldn't have used AA or AAA batteries.  I picked this up on clearance for about 30% less than I see online, and don't actively regret my decision because it truly seems to work, but when the batteries go I might upgrade instead of searching for watch batteries.  Maybe that isn't a deal-breaker for the rest of the world, but as someone who stocks up on cheap standard batteries for devices with very low drain and nice rechargeables for the more often swapped, I'm perhaps unduly annoyed that these have to be special.  It isn't a watch, it isn't a hearing aid,and it isn't even tiny.  You are not special, Rapitest 1825.  Use standard batteries like everyone else!

Now, after all that griping?  It appears to WORK.  Really, I get values I would expect in my pots from my oh-so-expert fingerpoke testing and the knowledge I have of how much water I dumped into each pot.  3 stars for being useful but irksome.  I'd recommend this to anyone who found it on mega clearance and doesn't share my hatred of watch batteries.
1456758
Opened the large package and everything was packed well, no damage even though the box was a little beat up.  Started putting it together using the manual given and it started out well until we got to the part where you started working on the backboard and hoop, things went south.

I HIGHLY recommend looking on Lifetime's website for the English written instructions as well as the photos.  The included manual was a joke - many of the diagrams were wrong, there were measuring mistakes (said to use a 25" pole when it was actually 30" according to the written manual) AND there were a few crucial steps totally omitted!  At the end we actually had to take apart the mechanism for raising and lifting the hoop because the manual forgot to include a crucial step when putting it together (we figured it out after I searched for the other manual!)

In all, it's extremely sturdy and I hope the kids will use it to it's full potential. If we didn't run into problems it would have taken us a good solid 3 hours to put together but because of the problems we had I say it took about 4-1/2 hours.

Purchased base gel to use with this, highly recommended!  Takes the place of water or sand and we had a nice storm last night and the hoop is still standing!
1313332
The bike came in a box.  Took about 3 hours to assemble although the assembly was relatively easy.  Only had to disassemble a couple of parts that I did wrong.  I love the bike but the manual is terrible.  It tells me what is available but not how to set up the electronics.  It says it has 16 programs installed but I have only found one of them.  I use it in manual (Quick Start) mode and love it.  It keeps up with time, distance, calories, watts (a new one on me), and speed.  This is more info than I need.  Oh, it gives me heart rate too when I grab the handles.  I look forward to using it often.  One person did not like it that I called this a "bike" but it is listed often as an "eliptical bike."  I know it is a trainer.  It is good for that purpose.  As a bike, it didn't move me far.  Don't plan to use it for travel.
3622008
The camera works fine but the manual is very bad. I am a computer freak. Therefore I could handle it. I do not know how normal people will do that.
4265885
the machine is built to provide many functions. I purchased it knowing there was no manual. It Is far TOOOO complicated to allow a casual user to be able to understand its functions.
585069
I like this mouse and would rate it higher BUT beware there is no
Manual of any sort and when you go online to their website and find the manual your happiness becomes frustration as their "manual" is a digital photo of the outside of the box which has
NO manual and NO quick start up guide..
You are on your own here and at over $50
That's a shame
146369
The product itself gets a 5/5 for me but I took one star because the instructions it came with were horrible to try to comprehend, especially for someone like me who hasn't done this before. I ended up going on youtube and there's this guy named "bike man for you" or something like that who sets up a Velo 5 which is pretty much the same thing as the Velo 7, so that helped. The cateye website was down when I tried to look for some videos on there, but now that it's back up I definitely recommend going there and reading the PDF Manual on the Velo 7 page. It's so much easier to comprehend on the websites Manual rather than the huge paper with 50 diff. languages and tiny print. After I put it together I spun the front wheel and it read about 10mph so I know it works. Good stuff.
2077147
Unit is very good. Original packed directions were COMPLETELY WRONG. Struggled for a short bit before I went online and downloaded (and had to print at cost) the correct manual. Would have given 5 stars if it wasn't for the manual.
How does this happen? Bad personnel - that's how.
2811702
This is a weird review. I love it now that I got it put together, but this was by far the WORSE instruction manual I have ever used. No pictures, directions didn't make sense. So much was under explained. Love the stroller though.
800643
This is an excellent chain saw. Mine starts easily and idles smoothly.

Unfortunately, the owner's manual is trash. Husqvarna should be embarrassed. I realize that chain saws can inflict crippling or fatal injuries in the blink of an eye, but can't all these warnings be moved to one place instead of peppering the manual on every page? Also, why are all the illustrations in the front? Come on, put them in-line with the text.

The manual says to release the brake before removing the clutch cover. Experienced people know to do this. I pulled the front hand guard (brake handle) back and I heard the sound of brake release. It turned out that the clutch cover had not been seated properly from the factory. The sound I heard was the brake handle skipping off the brake actuator because the parts were not fully meshed. When I tried to remove the clutch cover, I was surprised to find it was stuck even though the brake handle was all the way back. Lucky for me, I knew that this meant the brake was still on. I pushed the clutch cover back on fully and tightened the knob while moving the brake handle to be sure it was engaging fully. When I actuated the brake again (on to off) I got a more reassuring pop sound and I could feel behind the cover that the clutch was free to turn.

So before you take off the bar cover, make sure you can turn the clutch with fingers behind the cover before you try to remove the cover. Actually, the cover is very hard to remove with the brake on, but people unfamiliar with the saw may pry it off and then wonder why they can't install it back. I can easily imagine "newbies" having the brake on and prying the clutch cover off. This is a bad mistake and will eat up a lot of time you could have spent on being productive.

The manual gives absolutely no warning of this problem and it is a critical error that can be made on this Husqvarna. They should warn that the clutch should be free to turn before removing the clutch cover. This is another reason that I dislike this inadequate manual.

I would rate the saw at 5 stars. The poor manual brings it down to 4.
3039420
To be fair, with my rating, as above, I'm venting my frustrations, here, with the totally inadequate manual that comes with this device. This unit may be really great, but I can't tell, because of the almost indecipherable manual. That manual has 152 pages and, in its great verbosity, it explains, very poorly, how to operate this unit.  Yeah, this thing can do just about everything except cook you a gourmet meal, I guess, BUT, you need to slog through pages and pages of material to even begin to approach a rudimentary grasp of its mind-boggling features.  Going through the menus are incredibly tough and not exactly intuitive.  Some are counter-intuitive:  One button does one thing in one mode and something totally unrelated in another mode.  The manual just confuses you by slapping everything together. The "support" from the manufacturer is that in name only.  Going to their website you will find there basically is no support, save the horrible manual that you can download.  Have you ever been to Jamaica and tried to figure out what the locals are saying, right to your face, in Patois? Frustrating as hell.  You can make out many of the words but, to save your life, you cannot grasp the meaning of what's being said to you.  That is what the manual is like, in many cases.  There is hope, though.  Go to the main user group sites out there. They will help you, greatly.  Do go to them before you start tearing your hair out in frustration.  (I had the links in my original review, but Amazon pulled them.  Nice.) It is very telling that support groups exist for this line of recording devices.  What comes through in most postings is that scores of folks cannot use the manual to figure out much about the unit.  Once I have a good understanding of how to use this unit, I'll update, here. UPDATE: 5/10/12:  OK, I added another star.  While the manual is terrible, I am now figuring things out for myself and I'm starting to like this unit, more.  Expect another update once I teach myself how to use the multitrack features. UPDATE: 8/16/12:  I have now given this unit 5 stars.  I am using it in multitrack mode to make excellent quality demos.  It does the job in very fine fashion.  It is worth repeating that the manual is very frustrating to use. After having it for a few months, though, you will learn, on your own, as I have, how to navigate the menus, and that will greatly increase your enjoyment of this unit.
1912902
It is of great help to those of us who are not into preparing fancy dishes. However, the user manual is useless; there is hardly any useful instructions about how to use it and it was quite vexing having to consult friends on how to use it and on what the various accessories are for. Once you have figured how to use it, everything you prepare with it is cooked evenly all around and is quite tender  and juicy.
2822641
Great product! Its very sturdy and the table top has a nice solid texture to it.
However, the instruction manual is wrong!!! There are two kinds of screws (Long and short), the shorter one should be place at the end closer to the table top. The manual have it reversed... took me awhile to figure this out