Graco Ultra Clear 49MHZ Baby Monitor
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Baby Products Reviews of Graco Ultra Clear 49MHZ Baby Monitor
Customer Review: Got worse and worse
Summary: 2 Stars
Want to buy a different baby monitor. I bought because got good ratings, cheap, & one of the few monitors that came with 2 parent units. Had for 3 months now. Live in a 3 floor condo complex and it just got more and more static lately. Noticed differences when turn certain lights on or charging cell phones. No good. It's starting to wake us up b/c of static noise changes throughout night. It picks up noise well though and I like the fact that it has the light indicator for noise. I also like that it has option of AC or rechargeable battery. But I would not recommend to another person.
Update: 5/10/2010
Not sure if it had to do with new tenants moving in or another baby moving in next door so they had a baby monitor too or more wireless things we bought or what...but it was causing huge static/interference on the parent units that sounds like old radios. We could hear other people sometimes too. We could still hear the baby when he cries but it was with the static in background. The static was just so annoying at night and we would just turn the unit off sometimes. Living in an older condo too, I'm sure the other tenants (who are elderly people) had same frequency electronics that makes it worse. But we just gave in after 5 months of bearing with the static and bought this Philips one, we're happy with our buy so far even without 2 parent units. Not a big deal to just bring the parent unit with us.
Customer Review: Beware of Graco monitors, I think...
Summary: 1 Stars
I don't own this particular model. I own an older Graco two-handset monitor that we got when my daughter was born two and a half years ago. I assumed it would last us a while, but like a lot of electronics in this day and age, I think it was made with a distinct functional life---which is over. It worked great for the first few months after my daughter's birth, but we also didn't use it very often because we were in a one-level apartment where were could hear any sound from any room without the aid of technology.
Now, though, we have moved into a three story house, and definitely need the monitors to hear the babies in their rooms. The sound on both handsets have short-circuited at this point. They will show a red line when my kids cries, but the sound fades in and out on one monitor, and is completely dead on the other handset. I can't go to sleep thinking my children might be crying themselves sick, so we have had to buy another monitor set.
Also, the channel on the monitor I have gets interference from the house next door -- and from some strange company where I can hear the receptionist taking calls from people! Let me tell you, when I hear some strange man's voice over the monitor at one in the morning, I think someone had broken into the house. Spooky, to say the least.
So, like I said, I don't own this model, but I won't buy another Graco monitor.
Customer Review: Just OK
Summary: 2 Stars
This is the first time I've reviewed a product on Amazon, which should emphasize how strongly I feel about this product. It was a gift from my mother in law before we were even registered (therefore, I did not pick it out myself). I will start by saying that it serves it's basic function. If my baby is crying, I can tell. But I would not trust it if I were sleeping in one room and she were down the hall in her bedroom (she is still in a bassinet). Unfortunately, I have found this monitor to be VERY noisy with a lot of static/feedback. Not only is this really annoying, but I can't hear small sounds my baby makes. As a first-time mom, I want to hear EVERYTHING. It does have the light function to indicate sound, but there are always 2-3 of those lights lit at all times due to the static in the monitor itself, so again I can't tell when my baby is making noise. As a result of all this, I do not trust the monitor and am constantly running to check on my baby myself which defeats the purpose of a monitor. I currently have the Summer Infant Day & Night handheld video monitor (best selling video monitor on Amazon) on my wish list. Can't wait to get rid of this one!Customer Review: Meh...
Summary: 2 Stars
Does this monitor work? Yes. I can hear my little guy stirring before he is crying and that is important to me. I also like that it comes with 2 receivers, so I can put one receiver in my living room and another in my bedroom.
However, the receivers offer up SO much static and a constant buzzing noise. It drives me insane at night. No matter where I move the receiver in my bedroom, I still get the buzzing. The only other electronics in my room are an alarm clock/radio and a cordless phone. Not only do the receivers suck the life out of the batteries amazingly fast, they aren't rechargeable. It isn't that easy to put batteries in which you will be doing daily if you don't have it plugged in at all times. The base set is plug in only and that is a huge problem if your power ever goes out. The other night our street lost power for 12 hours. I actually had to have baby sleep in our bed for the night because I wasn't comfortable not being able to hear him in his crib. We are not co-sleepers and I found myself actually angry at an electronic device. I put up with the constant buzzing, but that was the final straw. I'm buying a new one.
Customer Review: Not just 4 Babies-Caretakers 4 Elderly/Disabled Too
Summary: 5 Stars
We have 2 eldely parents living on the 1st Floor. Both have Senile Dementia/Alsheimer Disease. Mother also has Osteo and falls if she attempts to walk alone. With her mind being very confused, we gave up trying to ask her not to get out of bed alone. Everytime she has done this she has fallen, 2 many trips to emerg room. Both dread going into a Nursing Home. Eventually we'll have no choice...For now this monitor is a BIG help. My brother is in the basement, I'm on the 2nd floor. We swap nights for monitor coverage. This saves on hiring additional help to come in while they sleep. It also gives us a little peace of mind as far as having homemakers alone with my parents. Just knowing there is a monitor on would hopefully keep them from ever 'being mean or disrespectful' Even when we aren't actually listening the homemaker wouldn't know the difference, sees the light on. On a sidenote be prepared to hear things that might surprise you, comments made by family, Ha! In order to avoid static we turn it down to the very lowest. Now if we can just get dad to stop expecting it to answer him back...