Excellent, simple, indoor/outdoor timer I’ve been using this type of timer for my two outdoor pond pumps (for waterfalls) for years. They turn the pump on in the morning and off in the evening.About five years ago, one finally failed and I quickly got a replacement at the local hardware store. Then a few days ago, the other timer failed. Off to the store, but I was told that the company that made them was out of business.I then went to Home Depot and Lowes, and neither had these timers, just complex digital timers that are a pain to program. Many were not for outdoors.This was discouraging, then a light went on. I went to Amazon, and sure enough they had them, albeit more expensive than the old ones. However, these are so easy to use and so reliable, I got two so I’d have a spare.You just turn the wheel to the current time, insert a green pin for the time to start and a red one for shutting off. They come with two sets of pins, but you can get more if you want multiple start-and stop cycles. There is a round pin to turn to start or stop manually.These are slightly larger than the old ones, but exactly the same design. I recommend them highly for simple programming and reliability. They arrived just a few days after ordering. Good old Amazon!
works for a while I have owned 4 of these. I bought this to run my car block heater and a ceramic heater. 11 amp total. it worked for one winter. then the next it wouldn’t work, so I bought another and the same thing happened. took it apart and the white plastic peice that keeps the contacts from touching had melted and deformed making it difficult to spin. this was used under the 15amp rating. I even used a watt meter to monitor the output. the 3rd one, the motor stopped moving the time wheel. only have one working now and it is running a 100w light. I went with a digital GE this year.
Excellent, simple, indoor/outdoor timer I’ve been using this type of timer for my two outdoor pond pumps (for waterfalls) for years. They turn the pump on in the morning and off in the evening.About five years ago, one finally failed and I quickly got a replacement at the local hardware store. Then a few days ago, the other timer failed. Off to the store, but I was told that the company that made them was out of business.I then went to Home Depot and Lowes, and neither had these timers, just complex digital timers that are a pain to program. Many were not for outdoors.This was discouraging, then a light went on. I went to Amazon, and sure enough they had them, albeit more expensive than the old ones. However, these are so easy to use and so reliable, I got two so I’d have a spare.You just turn the wheel to the current time, insert a green pin for the time to start and a red one for shutting off. They come with two sets of pins, but you can get more if you want multiple start-and stop cycles. There is a round pin to turn to start or stop manually.These are slightly larger than the old ones, but exactly the same design. I recommend them highly for simple programming and reliability. They arrived just a few days after ordering. Good old Amazon!
works for a while I have owned 4 of these. I bought this to run my car block heater and a ceramic heater. 11 amp total. it worked for one winter. then the next it wouldn’t work, so I bought another and the same thing happened. took it apart and the white plastic peice that keeps the contacts from touching had melted and deformed making it difficult to spin. this was used under the 15amp rating. I even used a watt meter to monitor the output. the 3rd one, the motor stopped moving the time wheel. only have one working now and it is running a 100w light. I went with a digital GE this year.
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