Intermatic HB800RCH 15-AMP 7-Day Outdoor Digital Timer

Product Details

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ASIN: B002MUB8A2
Item model number: HB800RCH

By : Intermatic
Price : $32.36

Item Description

From the Manufacturer
This Intermatic outdoor digital/photo timer will give you a multitude of utilizes. It comes with an simple and easy to set 7 day timer with astronomic characteristics. It has four on/off settings per day. It has a 15-Amp capacity with two receptacles, which are both timed.
Use the Intermatic HB800RCH Outdoor Digital Timer to automatically manage security lighting, engine block heaters, pool pumps, and countless other devices. The Timer adjusts to sunrise and sunset times for dusk/dawn settings. The color will blend into the landscape and the Timer is weatherproof to be utilized outdoors. With up to 28 On/Off settings and a manual override On/Off knob the Timer is pretty customizable for the user. The Timer contains two outlets to control outdoor appliances and lighting.Outdoor digital/photo timer4 On/off settings per day15-Amp capacityAstronomic features2-Receptacles

Technical Details

Outdoor digital/photo timer
4 On/off settings per day
15-Amp capacity
Astronomic features
2-Receptacles

Customer Reviews

Below is a post that I copied ; pasted from a buyer of the DT620CL... The directions from Intermatic suck ; from the reviews left in here, the programming interface could have very well caused a few suicides... This is not a particularly difficult unit to program, but the thing that got me was the event on/off cycle as you will read below... And THANKS Chuck Pearson...
There are several secrets to programming this device. From reading the reviews you can tell that some people figured them out right away after reading the directions, some had difficulty, and some never figured them out and returned the device as defective.
Secret 1: OK doesn't mean OK. It means cancel the setting I just finished programing. To keep the setting you have to push PROG after setting the minutes.
Secret 2: An event is not an on-off cycle. It is just one time setting. To get an on-off you need to program two events. If you program an on time for event 1 and then an off time for event 1 you will find that the on time is gone. You can do on settings and off settings in any order. The device just executes the change of state when that time is reached for that day.
Secret 3: You have to push the ON/OFF button when you plug it in the first time after programming it. After that it operates by itself.
Secret 4: Dusk and dawn settings override time settings. I didn't set any dusk or dawn events so I didn't figure out the details of this one but if your device isn't going on and off when you expected it to, check your dusk and dawn settings.
Other than that I have one other small but easily remedied complaint for this particular unit... At the bottom of the unit where you have 2 110 grounded appliance grounded plug-ins, there is a 1/4"-3/8" X 1/8" thick lip that extends past the base of the unit. This lip will not allow any appliance access, with an oversized plug, like say a window unit air conditioner. Any appliance that has a normal size plug like the one pictured on this item will plug in perfectly fine. I am a civilian contractor in Afghanistan ; I bought this timer to run a small air conditioner in my B-hut, that has an oversized plug that houses an internal re-setable overload breaker. I bought this timer because I am limited on power plug-ins, only 2 plug-ins per hootch. At any rate, the DT620CL takes up 2 plug-ins unless you tilt the unit. But back to the lip interference. The case of this unit is of coarse plastic. Unfortunately I'm not back at home, so I don't have access to my nice shop full of tools to trim the lip down. I used a Gerber multitool to nip the plastic lip down to the base of the unit. Very crude, but it worked ; it did not crack or harm the case of the unit... A regular pair of pliers would have worked just as well I would imagine. Your best bet would be to take a dremel ; small cutting wheel to trim the lip down.
This unit has 5 stars written all over it if they would fire the bozo who wrote the directions, but first make him pay for the divorces he's caused... Then fill in the injection mold at the factory where this stupid lip is molded. This lip adds no structural advantage to the unit, just makes it a PIA for us poor saps stranded in this lousy country...
Hope this review helps!
Chopper

This timer has you select your state and time zone to determine your local sunrise/sunset times. Alternatively ou can tell it what your current sunrise/sunset times and it applies the appropriate seasonal adjustments. All of these machinations results in a timer that knows what your sunrise/sunset times within a few minutes of actual and it does this without having to "see" the sun. If you want something to come on or off with the sun you can do it and keep the timer inside or out of harms way. No more having to move it away from shrubs or away from the eaves. These timers do offer pretty sophisticated features and I sorry to say that sometimes difficult problems have somewhat difficult answers. I was able to program it without the manual (I am a man after all) but found that the manual detailed features that I didn't know it had. I bought 4 of them at HD which no longer carries them. Glad that Amazon offers them. Only problems I had was that you really do need to mount them vertically and right side up if you expect them to work. Laying them down only to be submerged will stop them from working and annoys the GFI to boot. A little disassembly and an air gun will make things all right again. The receptacles do have a guard which makes plugging in a wall wart (AC adapter) a challenge but possible. I'm buying more of them.
Intermatic - as good as these are, how about making a HB1000 with separate timers for each receptacle? I've got 2 illuminated fountains for which I would like have different timers for the pump and the light. Right now I'm using 2 HB800's but it would be far tidier to have one timer. I'm sure you have more than enough electronics, you just need one more relay.