Honeywell TE532ELW Long, weather forecaster review

Overall Rating3.673.673.673.673.67

weather forecaster review

I am not at all impressed with this honeywell product. It is not at all intuitive as to how to change settings, and if you hit the wrong button when an alarm goes off, it puts you into reset mode and you have to reset everything. Temp changed reading from F to C and will not go back to read in Farenheit, and it often has false readings on the outside sensor, showing sun or partial sun with 98% humidity and rain going off. Overall, I rate this honeywell product as a lemon and would send it back if I had not thrown away the mandatory packaging and original info that came with it. Maybe honeywell needs to go back to made in USA for quality, instead of following suit with everyone who is getting their products made in China.I would gladly pay more for something if it was user friendly and it worked! This thing is junk and I will be looking for a replacement.

Update (2/7/2012): This item is currently on sale here for the lowest price I’ve seen. I also found some auctions for this item here.

The featured review for this product, Honeywell TE532ELW Long Range Weather Forecaster with Humidity and Atomic Clock Kitchen Jun 1, 2007, was written by Ronald Rider.

The average rating for this item is 3.7 out of 5 stars, according to 3 reviews.

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Reviews (3)

P. Albrecht

April 13th, 2010 at 11:35 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Excellent value
This remote thermometer and receiver indeed work over a longer distance (”range”) than some similar products. It also has an alarm function which alerts, if any remote temperature gets beyond your specified high or low.

All such remotes have distance limits. Many others say 100 feet, this one says 300ft. All get attenuated significantly, when passing through various thicknesses of walls, etc. For me, this one works where other brands did not, e.g. from inside a underground irrigation control box.

Note that the same one alarm range for remote temperature applies to each remote thermometer. And the base reporting unit can monitor up to three remote thermometer sensors. If you want more than one remote, to get it, it may be worth buying more than one set of base+remote. I did not find just an extra remote alone at a lower price. This has the fringe benefit that then all sensors broadcast to all base stations. All my units were calibrated equally, so having only one alarm range works fine.

It also has a weather “forecast” feature over the next 12 hours, but this is not driven by barometric readings, nor by weather radio, but is only an estimate based on temperature and humidity. Supposedly correct 78% of the time, and in any case fun to watch the icons for sun and rain.


P. Swope

April 17th, 2010 at 6:09 pm    


Overall Rating55555

Very nice unit.
This unit is great. It is compact and takes up little space, but provides all the information needed for weather. It has a good display, for those of us who need to see “big” characters on the screen. It actually is very acurate according to comparisons with the weather bureau. We think it is an extremely good buy for the quality.


Ronald Rider

April 21st, 2010 at 4:43 am    


Overall Rating11111

weather forecaster review
Rated 1 stars.


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