Equity by La Crosse SkyScan 31981 Atomic Bedside Clock

 (17 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...Read more

I bought this clock for the small size and large display screen. I liked that it never needs setting and displays date and temp, however these weren't things I was looking for in a clock, they were just bonuses. But I did have the same problem that I saw in another review here. The alarm and snooze features do not work like it says they will in the manual. The first morning I had my clock I got up at 6am while my husband and daughter stayed asleep. I had the snooze feature set and hit it once and it did go off again like it was suppose to. However, in the manual it says to hit any of the bottons on the front of the clock to actually shut the alarm off and it resets itself for the next day. So I hit one of the front buttons thinking I had shut the alarm off, but 5 minutes later it started going off again and I had to make a mad dash from the bathroom to my nightstand to shut it off and keep from waking my husband up. I hit a front button again, thinking maybe I hit the snooze by...Read more

I purchsed this clock from another source a couple of months ago. The first set of new alkaline batteries were dead inside a month. The second set of freshly charged NiMH were gone inside two weeks. Last week, even fresh batteries would not get the clock to work. When it did work, the LCD could not be read when laying in bed and the clock was on the nightstand. To be able to read the time you had to first pick up the clock and tip it.

I'm writing this review while looking for a replacement.