Taylor Wireless Digital Indoor Outdoor Thermometer, Easy to Read Numbers for Patio, Pool, and Indoor Areas, LCD, Black

These thermometers perform very reliably on both very hot and very cold days. They have excellent "run time", especially when a quality battery is installed when annual replacement is required.

This is the second one I have purchased. It replaces one I have had for 7 years. It is great. I lives through 4 seasons and it sits on the windowsill in my kitchen and I can just glance up to see the temperature outside. Set up is a no-brainer and batteries last forever.

Big numbers make it easy to read - you can click for "inside" or "outside" to be big. Both show, but the click of a button will alternate them so you can choose which one is "big". You can also toggle C to F for your choice.The outdoor unit (the one you hang outside to do the wifi setup/connection) should be used with lithium batteries if you live in a very cold climate. Regular batteries don't work well when it gets much below freezing.I docked one star because there is no hole on the back of the part that goes indoors to hang it on the wall. Our last one hung, and this just has a little kickstand. Maybe that's for more accurate indoor temp, but I'd prefer only an "outdoor" read with a hole to hang it inside. Just a minor glitch, but notable.

Works great!!

The Taylor 1730 Thermometer (Taylor 1730 Wireless Digital Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer, Black) arrived today, and I couldn't be happier with it! The picture is correct, but underplays the clarity of the display. The temperatures are provided to the nearest tenth of a degree, which are displayed (at one-half height) to the right of the whole degree.The unit itself is about 2 5/8" tall, 1 3/4" wide, and 5/8" deep. With the stand 'deployed', the thermometer's display tilts backward; it uses up about 2" of depth when on a tabletop or desk. The large numerals of the temperature display are 1" in height.One of the reviewers provides erroneous information, leastwise it does not match the unit I received. The reviewer deducted a star, in all likelihood, because the reviewer didn't even try to use the product. A large round switch is present on the front of the base unit, which can be depressed to alternate the display the local or remote temperature in large numerals on the display. The smaller numerals (at the lower left) display the other temperature. Always!Another reviewer called out the "small date in lower right corner." Puhleez! That small date is, in fact, the clock time. Setting the clock takes place using the marked buttons on the reverse of the base unit, and is well described in the instructions.This is a replacement to a two-year old Acurite Digital Indoor / Outdoor Wireless Thermometer 00380W with Daily High/Low thermometer, the main display of which went south last week. The unit's display -- back when it worked -- is not up to par with the Taylor 1730.Other pluses for the Taylor 1730 includes:- The remote sensor unit being rated for use from -40 deg F (and C, don'cha know) to 140 deg F (60 deg C) if lithium batteries are used in the remote ... -4 deg F (-20 deg C) with alkaline batteries. The remote sensor has a molded-in opening on the back for hanging it somewhere (out of the weather).- The instruction sheet actually contains meaningful information, and was written (or at least edited) by someone who knows English. No chinee-nglish here!- The base unit and the remote sensor use AAA-format batteries. The Acu-Rite unit uses AA in the problem-plagued remote sensor, and AAA batteries in the base unit.For context, the remote sensor is installed in the computer/server room in our house, so the temperature range was never an issue here. The base unit is installed less than fifty feet away, with several intervening walls. No transmission problems ... which is the same as the AcuRite unit. The base unit displays the temperature in the computer room in large numbers ... because I want to know if that temperature is warmer than normal.Potential down side? None ... leastwise sufficiently bad to detract from the well-earned five stars (as of yet, will update if necessary). But the Taylor 1730 Wireless Digital Indoor/Outdoor Thermometer, Black is not perfect:- The product is made to Taylor's "exact specifications in China," and not in the USA.- The base unit lacks a molded-in hole on the back surface that would allow me to reuse the hook in the wall left over from the AcuRite version. It's now on a convenient tabletop, using the fold-out support for stability.All in all, this was a great buy. I will update this review if something material changes. I'll report battery usage ... but this initial go-round is using the batteries from the broken AcuRite unit (and the replacement set, I used to try to 'fix' the display). Hopefully it'll be a long time before I install replacement batteries. (posted 12 June 2016)Update: (9 August 2017) Just replaced all four Duracell batteries (2 AAA in the tabletop unit, 2 AAA in the remote sensor) because the remote temperature was no longer being displayed. Fourteen months service from the old batteries -- used to some extent or other -- ain't shabby in my book <g>. I'll report the service of this new complement of Duracell batteries when I replace them again.

I impulsively bought this Taylor thermometer without reading the specs because it was inexpensive. I had another Taylor product that works great. This requires AAA batteries and they always leak and ruin any device. I am uncertain that it is accurate compared to a manual old style thermometer. The face is very hard to read. I have to pick it up and angle it just right under a light. It is a not worth the money. Nor is it worth the trouble of returning.

So far, it is great. We use wireless thermometers mainly to monitor the temperatures in freezers. (We have one standalone freezer and two refrigerator-freezers - one in the garage.) If the power goes out, it is not good to open the door to check on food because that warms it faster.We also use two wireless thermometers to monitor the temperature outside - one in the kitchen and one in the bedroom. We have used several different brands over the years and this is the first time we got this brand. Recently, the base unit in the bedroom went out and we got a replacement that cost $26. When one of the base units in the garage went out a couple of weeks later, I went to order another of the same brand and the price had gone up already, so I looked around and found this one with good reviews at about half the price.My wife complained that the temperature display on the last one was too small. This display on this one looked bigger than others here, despite reviews complaining that the unit is small. When it arrived, I put in the batteries and it quickly paired with the sensor unit without my doing anything else. I put it in the garage (and the sensor in the freezer) and when we checked it later, the display was very easy to read.The numbers were the same blackness as the display for the other freezer, but the background was much lighter which made the numbers stand out more.Having just got this, I can't say how its longevity will be, but my experience has been that they don't last a real long time. The odd thing is that on the last two units (of different brands) which died, it was the indoor base units which quit working, not the sensors, which is what is actually exposed to the elements outside or to the 0 degrees of the freezer.

Purchased 6 1/2 months ago. First time temperature went very 90 degrees display stuck at high temperature, even when it dropped back to mid 60’s.