TUREWELL BC103824060058 Irrigator

This review is for: TUREWELL Water Dental Flosser for Teeth/Braces, Water Teeth Cleaner 8 Jet Tips and 10 Pressure Levels, 600ML Large Water Tank Oral Irrigator for Family(White) To understand the shortcomings I found with this Turewell device, I have to first explain how the WaterPik brand equivalent device works. I have both brands. With WaterPik, there is one knob on the base unit, a dial, that lets you adjust the speed of the water jet using settings from 1 to 10. There is, importantly, a separate on/off push button on the base that starts the pump (not to be confused with the flow switch on the hand-held wand that turns the flow on and off to the pipette). Having these two buttons on the base means you can dial in your preferred rate of speed of the water jet and NEVER HAVE TO TOUCH THAT DIAL AGAIN, only using the separate on/off button to start and stop the pump, then use the wand on/off switch to let water pass through the wand. However, the Turewell has only the dial numbered 1 to 10 on the base which also functions as the device on/off switch so once you dial in your sweet spot for jet speed you have to dial it back below the 1 setting in order to turn off the pump, in other words, turn off the device. This means, every single time you turn it on, you have to again find your sweet spot on the dial while the unit is running. Now, you might think what's the problem, just make note of the dial number that you liked. Nope, because I have found that the pump speed is not consistent with the same dial number from instance to instance. Lame. So, I have to play around with finding the sweet spot while the jet is spraying, every time I use it. Then, while the WaterPik always has a nice continuous flow of water at any speed, the Turewell at higher speeds acts like a Roman candle on the 4th of July, pulsing balls of water at your gums (it hurts!) and if you turn it down then you get a weak stream. The sweet spot that you found before remains elusive. I have played with it enough that I seem to have figured out the temperamental motor but it's nowhere as nice as my WaterPik. Then, most times when I turn it on, again by turning the dial from its unmarked zero point to any higher number, the pump turns on even when the wand switch is still off, which I would expect, but some times the pump stays off until I activate the wand's switch. I think that's weird. The first time this happened that the pump stayed off like that, I thought the cheap unit broke on me. Don't know why it occurred to me to operate the wand switch in that moment but I did and then the entire device came to life and started shooting those Roman candle water balls all over the place. Geez, what is with this device that I have to fiddle with it like this? I bought my WaterPik several years ago when it was $59.99 and I had a $10.00 Amazon coupon so I paid only $49.99. I wanted to buy a second one recently but now the same WaterPik costs $89 or $99 which is too high. So, I tried this Turewell and I kinda regret it, cheapskate that I am, but because I've come this far with it, I'll keep it, but boy if WaterPik would only come down in price I would jump on that brand again. Perhaps this device's idiosyncrasies are not an issue with other people but there they are for your evaluation. I hope this review helps anyone.