Oregon Scientific UV888A Personal UV Monitor with Exposure Timer
by Oregon Scientific
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Customer Review: Great product.
Summary: 5 Stars
Great product.... accurate and useful. I use it often. Seems to be well-made also... nice design and easy to read.Customer Review: Seems to Work Well
Summary: 4 Stars
I love gadgets so I could not pass this up since I live in the desert of So Cal. I have used it only to measure how bad the UV is on a given day and give me an idea what the risk is. I did not use the timer to push my exposure. It has a count down timer for how long you can be exposed based on the current UV measured. I always use a hat and sunshine when in the sun for more than a few minutes so I don't rely on the timer. (You can sure see the difference in UV levels from early morning to noon). The unit is suppose to allow you to select skin type, but I can't seem to be able to set it. It is why I did not give it 5 stars.Customer Review: Good product
Summary: 4 Stars
This does what it claims. My only complaint is that it is not that intuitive and the instructions are not as clear or informative as I'd like.Customer Review: Doesn't Appear to Measure UVA
Summary: 3 Stars
I've had skin cancer & I use this meter to check general UV intensity - indoors, outdoors, in the car, etc. It's handy & lightweight, but watchout - I don't think it measures UVA. I've used it to check my indoor halogen lamps & it is sensitive enough to pick up UV from those. It also gives much higher readings at high altitudes vs. sea level, as expected. But if this thing does measure UVA (which apparently doesn't get filtered out by sun angle like UVB), it should be reading higher than 0 when I place it in full summer sun at 7pm, especially in New Zealand. I wrote Oregon Scientific but they couldn't tell me which UV spectrums it covers. Shame, cuz it's soooo much cheaper than the commercial-use UV meters.Customer Review: your common sense measure UV index better than this one
Summary: 1 Stars
the product we got is defective. the liquid display can only show partial of the digits. If you try to measure uv index behind window glass, it always shows 0, no matter how strong the sun is, which doesnt make sense to me.
As for the UV index measurement, it always show me 2 levels below what the weather forecast says and it doesnt tell you more than what your common sense can tell you.