Product Description

The Chaney Instrument 00985 Wireless Refrigerator Freezer Thermometer comes with programmable temperature alarms for your fridge and freezer

Wireless Digital Refrigerator/ Freezer Thermometer features an audible and visual alarm when temperatures exceed your pre-set minimum and maximum selection.

Chaney Instrument 00985 Wireless Refrigerator Freezer Thermometer Features:

• Audible and visual alarms when temperatures exceed your pre-set minimum and maximum selection
• Remote sensors are equipped with spring action clips to secure inside regrigerator or freezer. Suction cups included
• Main unit equipped with a fold out stand and magnets on back of unit
• Temperature range -4 degF to 158 degF with alkaline batteries, -22 degF to 158 degF with lithium batteries (not included)
• select °C or °F for displayed temperatures
• Main unit, 2 AAA batteries
• Refrigerator unit, 2 AA batteries
• Freezer unit, 2 AA batteries
• Main unit dimensions: 2-5/16"H x 5-7/8"W x 1" Thick
• Remote sensor dimensions: 4 1/8"H x 1 3/8"W x 13/16" Thick

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #39250 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Chaney
• Model: 00985

Features

• Audible and visual alarms when temperatures exceed your pre-set minimum and maximum selection
• Remote sensors are equipped with spring action clips to secure inside regrigerator or freezer. Suction cups included
• Main unit equipped with a fold out stand and magnets on back of unit
• Temperature range -4 degF to 158 degF with alkaline batteries, -22 degF to 158 degF with lithium batteries (not included)
• Main Unit (2 AAA Batteries) Remotes (2 AA Batteries)

Customer Reviews

Good idea??
I bought this after I had inadvertently left the refrigerator door open for the fourth or fifth time. I thought this would be a good solution to that problem, where I would get an alarm if the refrigerator or freezer warmed up due to an open door. But this unit keeps giving me an -E- error message and I have to reset the whole unit each time and start the monitoring again. What a pain. The company says it's due to the placement of the unit and/or sensors but no matter where I put them, I get the error.

CHANEY INST. 00985 WIRELESS REFRIG.-FREEZER THERMOMETER
THIS WIRELESS THERMOMETER OPERATES PERFECT. BEING IN THE REFRIG.IND. FOR 40 YRS I CHECKED THE TRANSMITTERS FOR ACCURACY AND THEY WERE RIGHT ON THE MONEY. VERY HAPPY WITH THIS PRODUCT
J. LANG AURORA COLO.

It's Perfect In Every Way, Except It Doesn't Work!
After having one of our refrigerators freeze up and go out on us recently, we had water all over the floor and we lost quite a bit of food products. As we do not spend much time in the area where this refrigerator is, we had no idea it had gone out for quite some time. After purchasing a new refrigerator/freezer, we didn't want to take the chance of another disaster like this, so we searched for a thermometer and alarm system that would allow for an external display with separate internal temperature sensors for the refrigerator and freezer compartments. Every site we checked pointed to the Chaney 00985 Wireless Refrigerator Freezer Thermometer, so we eagerly ordered one. We also picked up a 4-pack of Lithium AA batteries to power the remote sensors.

Setup instructions for the Chaney 00985 thermometer are very simple and easy to follow. I had the batteries installed, and the sensors in place in less than 10 minutes. We decided to utilize the magnetic mounting of the receiver, and stuck it directly to the outside of the refrigerator door. Within a couple of minutes, the freezer sensor registered with the receiver, showing a temperature of 58°F. I knew the freezer was no higher than zero degrees, but I figured it would likely take several minutes for the sensor to adjust to the drastic temperature change. Ten minutes later I checked again and the freezer was still showing 58°F and the refrigerator sensor still hadn't registered with the receiver. After waiting an hour, the freezer temp showed 52°F and the refrigerator finally registered but showed a temp of 67°F. WOW, how crazy is that? I removed the batteries and started over. This time both sensors registered within the first 10 minutes, but after an hour they were still showing in the 50s and 60s.

Over the course of several hours we changed the location of the receiver and sensors, and I even went out and purchased a new set of batteries (at nearly $10.00 for a 4-pack of lithium AAs). Many times the sensors wouldn't register with the receiver at all, unless I had them extremely close together (I'm talking within one foot of each other). The only way I could get this product to work is if I took the remote sensors out of the refrigerator and freezer compartments and placed them right next to the receiver. I am not exaggerating at all here folks, the sensors had to be literally within inches of the receiver in order to register and provide fairly accurate temperature readings. It eventually became clear to me that this product will not work at all with the sensors in the refrigerator and freezer compartments at all. Isn't this supposed to be the whole purpose of this product, to measure the internal temperatures of a refrigerator and freezer?

I don't know if our new refrigerator/freezer came with some sort of doors that the signal could not penetrate, but obviously this product would not work for us and I feel that the wireless signal they use is extremely poor. Amazon was great about letting me return this device, but now my wife and I cannot find any other wireless device to replace it with. There are a couple of others on the market, but they receive rather poor ratings as well and we are afraid to take a chance on them. I really, REALLY wanted to like the Chaney 00985 Wireless Refrigerator Freezer Thermometer. It looks awesome and the features of this product are exactly what we have been looking for. However, this device is obviously made of extremely poor quality, and I recommend that anyone who decides to purchase this product should keep the packaging and receipt handy, as it is likely you will end up needing to return it. I would gladly pay three times as much for this product if it would work reliably. In the meantime, if anyone knows of a product like this that is proven to work well, please let me know. Thank you.