Today I'm going to show you some of the features of this timer and
demonstrate how to program it. First let's give it a once-over. There's a
three-pronged outlet, a three-pronged plug, another three-pronged outlet, and
we're back at the display. I'll flip it forward so you can have a look as well.
If you receive the timer and the LCD is blank you'll need to plug it in for a
few hours. It has an internal battery that charges a microchip and the
microchip stores the current day and time as well as the programming
information. In order to set the current day and time you'll need to use the
clock button here. In order to set it you'll hold down the clock button and
while keeping it held down you'll use the hour minute and week buttons to set
the time and day to week. So let's do that. To set the time and day of the week, I'll
hold down the CLOCK button, use the HOUR button to adjust the hour, the MINUTE
button to adjust a minutes, and the WEEK key. You'll see the week scroll across
the top to select the day of the week.
Now that we've got the current time and day set, we're ready to program. This
timer has eight different programs and for each of the eight programs you need
to set the timer's ON and OFF times. You don't need to use all eight programs but
you have that flexibility. To select each program you'll use the PROGRAM key
here. If I press it once you notice this is where I'll set the program 1's ON
time, and I'll show you how to do that in a moment, and press it again, this is
where I'll set the program one's OFF time. Press it again, this is where I'll set
the program two's ON time, then program two's OFF time, program three's ON time, program
three's OFF time, etc etc for each of the eight programs. Then it just loops
back around.
If you ever want to get back to the initial display, which is the time and day
of the week, just press the CLOCK button. So let's set program one. To get
to the programming options you'll press the PROGRAM button. Here we'll
set the program 1 ON time by using the HOUR, MINUTE, and WEEK buttons.
So if I'll press HOUR. Let's set this to go off at 7:30 p.m. So use the HOUR button
to select the hour, the MINUTE button to select the minutes. When it
comes to the WEEK button, we have lots of options. Right now you'll see that it
shows Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. That's when it'll turn the lights on. If I
press it again, this is Thursday Friday Saturday. Press it again to keep
scrolling through. Now it's showing me every day of the week. Monday only.
Tuesday only .Wednesday only. Thursday only. Friday only. Saturday only. Sunday
only. And it has every combination you can think of. Monday through Friday.
Saturday Sunday only. Monday through Saturday. Monday Wednesday Friday. Tuesday
Thursday Saturday. And we're back to where we started. Let's say I want this
to go every day of the week. So I'm going to set it so that the timer works every
day of the week, it turns lights on at 7:30 p.m. every day
of the week. Now to set the program OFF time I'll press the PROGRAM button again
and now you'll see it says program 1 OFF time. Use the HOUR button to select the
hour and if the lights are coming on 7:30, I want to turn off around will say
10:30,
or 10:32, and I'll use the WEEK button again to select what days of the week I want this
to happen. Since I set the on time for every day of the week, I'm going to set
the off time for every day of the week.
So program one is set. If I wanted to set program two now I would press the
PROGRAM button and I'd go through the same steps using the HOUR, MINUTE, and
WEEK buttons. And you'll do that for all the programs should you choose to use
all eight. I'm going to put in a program two so I can show you another
function of this timer. If I set program two'a ON time, and let's say now I'm
going to set program two's OFF time, if I later decide that I want to clear
this program, then what I'll do is I'll use the R key and you'll
notice that it will clear it. So if I scroll back to program twos on time I want to
clear it, I use the R key. You'll notice how it goes blank. Now I want to
shut off program two's off time and clear that by using the R key. Now to
turn the timer on and off you will use the ON/AUTO/OFF button. I'm
going to go back to the clock display real quick by pressing the CLOCK button. So you'll
turn the timer on and off using this button here and you'll notice that it'll
scroll off, auto, on here every time I press it. What this means is when the
timer is in the off position there will be no power supplied to these outlets. I
press it again... In auto mode the timer will function at the times that I've
programmed in programs one through eight. If I press it again... on means that power
is being supplied to these outlets. So if I happen to be home and I want my lights
to be on I'll use the on key so that there's power supplied here and I can
turn on the lamps. If I'm away from home I wanna put it in auto mode so
that the timer turns on the lights at the times I've designated. So let me show
you another little handy function of this timer or feature of this timer.
You'll notice up here, this little bubble is going to appear when I hold down the
week and hour button. See the little bubble show up? I'll press them again so it
shuts off and back on. When that little bubble is on this feature allows the
timer to randomly turn on or off the programs within a two or thirty two
minute interval. So if I've set the timer to come on at 10:15 it'll
come on randomly between two and thirty 32 minutes within that time frame and
that way it's random. It looks like someone's actually home. The lights
aren't going on and off exactly at the same time every night. So that's handy!
One other thing to note when choosing this timer is that the programs turn
power on and off to the outlets simultaneously. That means that you
cannot program program 1 to only turn on
this outlet and then use program 2 or 3 to only turn on this outlet. It
doesn't work like that. Either power is being supplied to the outlets or it's not.
I hope this review has been helpful and thanks so much for watching.