Today I'm going to be reviewing and showing you how to use the my touch
smart simple set wireless timer system. This is available at The Home Depot.
This is the indoor model which comes with a receiver that has a two pronged
polarized plug. This unit can also be purchased with an outdoor plug pictured here.
The outdoor plug/receiver has two three-pronged grounded plugs.
What I like about this timer is that the wireless function works from the
transmitter up to 100 feet.
It's simple to program. It has three factory
presets, and one custom preset, and can be used with LEDs, CFLs, incandescents,
halogen lamps, small appliances, like fans, electronics, and Christmas tree lights.
You can also add multiple receivers whether they be indoor or outdoor.
Just keep in mind that the way the timer works it'll turn all the receivers on
and off at the same time even if you add additional receivers.
When you receive the unit, the first thing you want to do is pull a plastic tab from here, which
will allow contact for the three AAA batteries that are included.
Once the power is on, you'll use the down arrow or up arrow to set the current time.
You just hold down the arrows to set the current time.
Once the current time is set, you're ready to program.
As I mentioned, this has three factory set
default programs: Evening, Morning, and All Night.
To turn on each of these presets, just press them.
You'll see the LED will turn on.
For the "Evening" preset, it turns power on to the receiver from 5:00 p.m. to 12 a.m.
If I press it again it turns it off.
The "Morning" preset will turn power on to the
receiver from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
And the "All Night" preset will turn power on
to the receiver from 6:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m.
You turn it on by pressing it once or turn it off by pressing it again.
To set a custom preset use the "My On Time" and "My Off Time" buttons.
So let's say I'm not going to use any of the
factory presets. I'll set my own on time, so I press the "My On Time"
button, and then I'll use the arrows to select the time that I want it to come on.
In this case it's going to come on at 12:33 a.m. Then I'll select
"My Off Time" and here I'll use the arrow keys to select the time that I want timer to shut off.
What's neat is you can use a combination of these factory
presets with the custom presets. For example, (I need turn these off)
So for example, if I want to set the evening preset, but I don't want it to
come on at 5:00 p.m. as the factory default is set, but want it to come on at
6:00 p.m., what I do is I turn on the "Evening" preset and then turn on
the "My On Time" and set it to come on let's say 6:24 p.m.
So using these two together, in this case, it will turn on at 6:24, and it will
turn off at 12:00 a.m.based on the "Evening" preset.
Say for example I want it to come on at 5:00 p.m., but I don't want
it to turn off at 12:00 a.m. I want it to shut off sooner. I press "Evening" again.
I need to turn off the "My On Time." If I press "Evening" again it's going to come on at 5:00 p.m.
and I'll set the custom off time by using the "My Off Time" button.
In this case it's going to shut off 10:15 p.m.
So it will come on at 5:00 p.m.and shut off at 10:15 p.m.
One of the things I don't like about this timer is that it's super simple. For example,
it's not overly flexible in that it's a daily timer. I couldn't program it
for different days of the week. If I'm going away over the weekend
and I use any of these buttons or even the custom presets, it's going to come on in both
Saturday and Sunday. I couldn't program it to just turn on Saturday, but not on
Sunday. It doesn't work like that. Or for example, if I only wanted it to come on
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, I don't
have that flexibility. It's going to come on Monday through Sunday unless I shut
it off myself.
Another function you can use to to program the timer is for example,
You're leaving the house, but you want the lights to stay on for three hours.
You can use the "My Countdown" button, (aside: I'm going to shut off
these programs that I previously set).
You can use the "My Countdown" button to keep the lights on from anywhere between one
minute to 24 hours. If I press the "My Countdown" button, you'll see a little
tab. This is one hour, one hour one minute, and I can use the arrow keys to select
how long I want the lights to stay on. Again, it's counting down from the amount
of time that you set. In this case I leave the house and with the countdown
function, the lights will stay on for two and a half hours and then shut off.
Another cool feature about this is the transmitter is merely a remote control.
If I'm sitting on the couch and I want to turn power on to all of my
receivers, I simply press "On" and the power
will come on. Then, if I I'm going to bed and I want to turn
everything off, I just press the "Off" key.
If I had any of these programs set
the timer will still continue to follow the programmed times.
Other functions are
this little button here which is just the backlight button, which will turn the
backlight on and show you what is on what is off, or what settings have been
selected. For example if I just select "Evening" with the backlight on it will
tell me that this preset is active. Here is a reset button, which
you use a paperclip to hold down and it will reset
the entire unit.
...and that's it.
I hope this review has been helpful.
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