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Cobalt Safes EW-03 Electronic Wall Safe
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| Disappointing Experience |
| Reviewed by: Jim Wednesday, October 05, 2011
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Would you recommend the EW-03 Electronic Wall Safe to a friend? YES
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| Pros: |
Heavy duty, deeper inside than most wall safes |
| Cons: |
awkward to use, reliability problems with keypad |
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Purchased From: Kansas City Safe
Review: This is a very heavy duty wall safe that is considerably deeper on the inside than most (but thus requires a deeper wall. I have about 8 inches depth available).
To open the safe, one needs to use the key AND the keypad, which is a nuisance. Most wall safes have an override key, but this one does not.
After about three years, the battery died on my safe. I plugged in the external battery pack with fresh batteries supplied with the unit for emergencies, but it didn't work. The keypad started beeping coninuously, locked up, and wouldn't operate, no matter what I did. Eventually, I had to spend three hours with a diamond cutting saw in order to cut open the safe.
Once I opened the safe and removed the access panel (two screws) to view the mechanism, it was immediately obvious how to override a dead keypad from the outside. I won't explain how to do it here, but if you buy this safe, I highly recommend you take a photo of the internal mechanism, so you won't have to experience the ordeal I did. BTW, now that I know how the safe works, I ordered a replacement because I had the proper hole in the wall already.
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