Zadro Sunlight 365, Artificial Sunlight 365 Days a Year
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Zadro Sunlight 365, Artificial Sunlight 365 Days a Year Details
Manufacturer: ZadroBrand: Zadro
Release Date: 2007-12-21
Model: Sun365
Product features:
- Portable, includes travel pouch
- Sunlight without UV rays
- Natural sunlight for mood adjustment
Customer Reviews of Zadro Sunlight 365, Artificial Sunlight 365 Days a Year
Customer Review: Thank goodness for small favors!
Summary: 5 Stars
Sunlight Therapy Zadro 365 / B001AHMN34
Pros
+ Easy to setup
+ Easy to use
+ Adjustable levels of brightness
+ Small, unobtrusive
+ Works wonders for my awareness, awake-ness, and moods
Cons
- Lacks full battery functionality
- 24 (aka "military") time only
- Plastic backing could be a little more sturdy
I've been saying for years that I am "solar powered" - when it is cloudy or rainy for days on end, I get 'rainy day blues' and when it's sunny and bright outside, I just feel so much better. When I took a job three years ago in a windowless building, I knew I would struggle with the issue of only seeing the sun and sky briefly in the mornings and then even more briefly in the evenings. Winters are, without a doubt, the worst.
A year and a half ago, I was diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, based on my symptoms of being *constantly* tired and draggy, as well as some blood work that "lit up like Christmas", to quote my doctor. I yawn throughout the day at work, I feel fatigued and mentally absent, and I literally call a friend or relative every day to "talk me home" because I feel as though I could fall asleep on the drive. And, believe me, I live cleanly - I limit caffeine and sugar intake, I go to bed at the same time every night, wake up at the same time every morning. But bed at 10 pm never seems to be early enough, and awake at 6 am is an impossible struggle. Even when I try to give myself 10-11 hours of sleep, I still drag through the day!
I've never been diagnosed with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), but I've of course heard of it. I've often said that money would be no object for a light therapy device - *IF* I could just know that it would actually work. This seemed like a nice, low-risk investment, due to the relatively low price.
The first day I used the Zadro, I woke at 5:45 am, took the Zadro to work, and plugged it in at my desk at 7:00 and then just left it on all day until 5 pm. That first day, I immediately noticed some small improvement: I still yawned during the day, but less often, and without the usual accompanying absolute weariness that clouded my mind and made me so miserable. Over the next few days, I repeated this pattern and I noticed some small, but much needed changes - I was waking up at 5:45 with (or even before) the alarm, mornings were more productive, afternoons were less exhausting, I yawned less, and I no longer begged people to keep me awake on the drive home. I felt happier, and much less depressed and sad - more like I feel on sunny weekends than I usually do on gloomy Mondays.
Now, all that may not sound like drastic improvement to you (shouldn't I be dancing and singing like Julie Andrews?), but to me, it is a dream come true. There is no doubt in my mind that the Zadro is helping me, and I consider it worth every penny. So if you see any of yourself in the situation above, and you just want the cheapest therapy light you can find to test it for yourself, then you can stop reading my review now, if you like, and add this to your cart - the rest of my review will be technical details for people comparing the Zadro to some of the other light therapy devices out there.
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The Zadro works right out of the box - pull the little plastic kick stand out, set it on your desk, plug in the cord, and you're ready to go. The initial light setting is at full power, so do NOT look directly at it when you turn it on, or you'll be seeing stars for a few minutes. The light can be adjusted from 100% to 10%, in discrete steps of 10% each, and all of the settings are very bright - I keep mine permanently on 10% and never look directly at it (I face north, the light sits two feet in front of me, facing south, but the light is also about two feet to my left as well, giving me the peripheral light).
The instructions are easy to read and understand; the clock and timer are very quick to set up. Hold the 'clock' and 'program' buttons down until the clock display starts to blink, then use the up/down buttons to adjust the time. Press the 'light' button to turn on the light, press the up/down buttons to adjust the brightness, press the 'clock' button to turn the lights back off.
Oddly, the Zadro is a "hand held" size, features battery backup (open the battery door and pull the protection strip to activate), and comes with a padded black fabric carrying case for both the light and the power charger - *however* the battery appears to only be strong enough for clock backup when taking the light on travel or from the home to office. It doesn't seem that the battery is strong enough to actually run the light. Or at least if it is, I haven't been able to charge it fully enough to do so - when I pull the plug during operation, the light immediately extinguishes. So if you were planning to, say, take this in the car with you, then this probably won't work for you.
Although this has a timer to turn on the light at a specified time, I can't see a way to, say, turn it on at 10% and then increase brightness by 10% every ten minutes or so. So if you're interested in a sunrise-simulating alarm clock, this won't fit the bill either. And the plastic casing and kickstand aren't the most expensive, most sturdy material I've ever owned, but it's definitely not flimsy either. I can see this holding up for a long time, even with heavy travel use.
Bottom line, if you think you might have SAD and are just looking for a bargain device to 'test' your response, I definitely recommend this Zadro. If, on the other hand, price isn't such an object and you're comparison shopping - well, *I* still recommend the Zadro, but you might feel that, say, a sunrise alarm feature or a stronger battery capacity is worth the extra money - that'll be up to you, ultimately.
~ Ana Mardoll
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