La Crosse Technology WS-8418AL-IT Atomic Digital Wall Clock with Moon Phase

Over the past 2-3 years I have bought 6 of these clocks/thermometers.
Two as gifts and one for myself.
I really only wanted to buy three, but in the first 3, the outdoor thermostat failed for each of them after about a year.
New batteries and resets did not fix the problem.
So I ordered 3 more clocks, thinking at first that I had just gotten a lemon.
(I tried to find just the outdoor unit, but it is hard to find and costs almost as much as the whole unit.)

Out of these next 3, 2 of them had a failing outdoor thermometer within a year.
The last one I ordered has been working for well over a year.
In 5 of the 6 cases, the outdoor thermostat was mounted in a porch and was not directly subjected to the weather.

The atomic clock and the indoor thermostat on all of these have always worked well.
They have never given a problem.

But the outdoor thermostat is not reliable. And that was a main reason for...Read more

This is a great product, easy to read the time from across the room or garage, and the temperature readings are so handy I bought a second one. It's got date and moon phases, which is one more feature then I really want, but everything is clear and simple.

Setup is confusing, just because the broadcast time needs an offset, and the year is not displayed, nor labeled, but needs to be set. It's not something that was difficult to find in the manual, nor to correct (setting is a breeze) but confusing enough that when I got the second clock I made the same mistakes and had to look in the manual again.

Incidentally, each of my two reads only it's own external temperature sensor, so there is no issue with having two clocks. For me I simply have two external sensors mounted together, but if you want multiple clocks to read multiple locations it's not a problem.

It would be nice if there were more temperature zones, but then again my multi-zone...Read more

This clock is a quality product, it not only looks great but performs to the same standard. The finish is very nice, will look elegant and yet almost techy in any room. It was a great addition to the master bedroom for my house.

Setting the clock up was fairly simple, however it does take a good 3 to 4 hours to pick up signal for the time and date to be accurate, but after that it has been faultless. The indoor and outdoor temperature seem to be very accurate with what tests I did with the air conditioning and the outside weather temperate in my car.

The only few drawbacks that I would mention is that when setting up the clock, the user has to place batteries in the external outside temp sensor first then in the actual clock unit itself. This is not a problem until the batteries ( which have not run out yet) need replacing in the outside señor, then you must replace the batteries in the sensor from outside and go back in the room, dismount the clock...Read more