Equity by La Crosse SkyScan 31981 Atomic Bedside Clock Review

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(More customer reviews)I've been looking for an ideal alarm clock for awhile--something reletively small with easy-to-reach controls and a large LCD display with an on-demand backlight that illuminates well and evenly in the dark. AND I want an alarm that can be set to have the snooze button disable the alarm until the same time next day. (I don't use the snooze feature, and get frustrated with alarms that make me manually switch the alarm off, and then switch it back on for the next morning's alarm.)

This alarm clock ALMOST fit my criteria...
-Decent-sized display.
-Evenly-lit backlight....the only problem is that when you view it in the dark with the backlight on, it COMPLETELY fades out when viewed from slightly below straight-on. And since it is angled upward, if your night-stand is even to your bed, the LCD will be unreadable at night with the backlight on unless you reach over, pick up the alarm, and tilt it to a viewable angle.
-The instruction manual SAYS it has an alarm mode and a snooze mode. In the alarm mode, supposedly hitting the snooze button will disable the alarm until the next morning. HOWEVER--It doesn't work like it says in the manual. In that mode, it works exactly like it does in the regular snooze alarm mode--the alarm goes back off in a few minutes, and you eventually have to physically turn off the alarm, and then reactivate it later for the next night---exactly what I didn't want to do. And it's NOT because I'm not following the instructions in the manual--I am.

Otherwise, it's a nice little alarm. Atomic feature works as advertised. The crescendo alarm is nice, but not very loud. And it's small, and has a small footprint.

I may keep it because it's cheap, but I'll still keep poking around for a more ideal alarm.

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Product Description:
Our lowest priced Atomic Clock sets itself automatically by receiving and decoding the NIST radio signal from the Atomic clock in Fort Collins ,Colorado.The clock checks itself daily to give you the most accurate time available.All you do is set the Time Zone and the Atomic clock does the rest.The 31981 also has an alarm setting,date,and indoor temperature.

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