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Today I’m checking out the AMIR Digital Alarm Clock (WA33KM) — a minimalist LED bedside clock that runs on USB-C power with AAA battery backup. It’s a budget-friendly replacement for my old living-room clock, with adjustable brightness, 12/24-hour display, and daylight-saving support.
In this video, I’ll unbox it, set the time, and test its night-mode dimming. While it doesn’t have an ambient light sensor, it automatically dims by time — simple, clean, and effective for anyone wanting a no-frills digital clock.
🕐 Features covered:
USB-C power + AAA backup Adjustable LED brightness Auto-dim night mode (time-based) 12/24-hour switch & DST toggle Compact, easy-to-read design
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Original Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIDRyNEVAlM
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Today we’re looking at this LED alarm clock, model number WA33KM. This is a very simple alarm clock to replace my basic one in my living room, because it’s looking faded and old. Let’s open it up. Here’s the alarm clock wrapped in bubble wrap. There it is. We’ve removed the protector. On the back, we have the USB-C port and some basic controls. The USB-C is the primary power source for this clock, and I believe there are three AAA batteries used for backup — they don’t power the clock, they just keep it alive.
There’s a manual again: three AAA batteries for backup only, and some steps on how to configure it. I’ll pop the batteries in — one, two, three. The batteries are in. Now we can set it up with USB-C power. Oh wow, it actually powers up. It says it’s only for memory, but I guess it just shows the time for a quick second. If you tap it, it turns on — so you can check the time when it’s just running off AAAs. That’s pretty cool.
Let’s plug in the USB-C. For simplicity’s sake, we’re just going to run this off a power bank. Plug in one end, plug in the other, and we’re good to go. I quite like it. It’s very minimal, very basic, and that’s exactly what I was after.
Now we’re going to configure the time. First things first, let’s flip it over. There’s a DST switch, so I’ll push that — it’s in DST now because it’s summer in Australia. I think it’s in 24-hour format by default — we’ll check that in a second. The mode button cycles through the year and date, which I don’t plan on really using. If we hold down the mode button, we can set everything. It’s defaulted to 2024, and we’ll bump that up to 2025. Hit mode again — 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. Yep, that’s the month. So it’s October 22nd, and the time is 6:08. It’s in 24-hour time. I just want to get it exactly right — on the dot. Okay, it’s set.
I prefer 12-hour time, so I think we just tap the up button and that does the switch. There we go: 6:09 p.m. Done. I’m not going to bother with the alarm settings — not really something I’m into. If it’s your thing, that’s cool, but this won’t be an alarm clock, it’s just going to go on my shelf. One more function we’ll test is the auto-dimming. Let me lower the lights and see if it dims.
It is still very, very bright. Let me see if we can turn on the sensing method. Okay — hold the light button for 3 seconds and a moon will appear on the display for auto night mode. I see — the auto-dim is based on time, not ambient light, so it’s not going to go dark until later. Let’s see the other brightness levels. I guess we can set the max brightness — the default is just too bright for me. I think that’s bright enough. I assume it will go a little dimmer later. Again, it’s not an ambient light sensor — it’s based on time.
I’m just going to plug this in and put it where my clock used to be. Here’s my old clock that we’re replacing — you can see it’s very old and faded. I also have this smart clock, but I want something that always shows the time, which is why we’re going to put the other clock there. We’ll move this over and get rid of this. There we have it — the clock is right here on the left, looking good. I like how clean and easy it is to see the numbers from far away. Again, we’ve adjusted the brightness to something less extreme. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to be based on ambience, so hopefully that’s good enough for me.
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