Angelcare AC1100 Video, Movement and Sound Monitor Platinum Edition

Jamesy
Reviewed: 07 June 2012

Fab bit of kit, wouldn't be without it now - piece of mind with fully 'failsafe' design

As overall description, would certainly buy again or recommend to a friend.

None really - guess its reasonably expensive, but you get what you pay for and this is worth the extra over other, lower spec units if you can reach to it.

The sensor pad works really well, and I like the general idea of 'fail-safe' design so if there is no movement from the cot, or the power fails, or signal drops or anything like this it warns you - me being a general 'worrier' normally this really does give a piece of mind.

The night vision camera is great - can keep an eye on baby anytime of the day.

Also very impressed with Anglecares customer support; we managed to damage our screen unit and knowing how important it was to us for baby overnight they sent a new one, free of charge and overnight - great service.

Forgetting to switch the sensor pad off when lifting the baby out of the cot is a pain, as the alarm goes off - but this is not the monitors fault (and it shows that the monitor is working ok and would alarm if baby stopped moving/breathing).

The screen is fairly bright if you keep it on overnight in your bedroom, but it can be switched to off into screen off mode (this saves battery if you aren't using the mains cradle) and the monitor still functions the same.

Ideally you need a second charging cradle so you can have one in the bedroom and one downstairs so you can keep the handset charged - but these are available for £22.50 from Anglecares spare parts dept online (this is what we did, and its really handy).

The other thing we did was purchase a £10 little 'gorilla pod' - its a camera tripod that you can use to mount the camera unit on the crib or cot, as the camera unit has a standard tripod screw mount