GE MyTouchsmart Indoor Plug-In Digital Timer, 26892

Al principio es un tanto desesperante esperar a que llegues al ajuste de hora / minuto pero una vez funcionando ningún problema y te olvidas de él. Buen producto aunque tengo la impresión que otra persona lo usa como pisa papeles o atorador de puerta :(

Something that works...

I bought this over many other solutions to a digital plug-in timer. It came powered on which at first I thought was weird but this must have an internal battery that will keep the time active in case of a power outage! That is a great feature as it would take a bit to reset a custom time if the power were to go out. Setting the time was easy. As long as there is some charge to that internal battery. Mine was a bit dying when I first tried to set it up, so it was very hard to see the digital display. It was like trying to see a watch that had a dying battery. After plugging it for a bit I was able to easily set the time. It is a bit slow to setting the time. But you just need to hold down the button and it goes by pretty quickly. Make sure to set it to the correct AM/PM, or whatever you have it hooked up with will be a bit off :) You have several different options for when it will turn on/off your device that you have plugged into it and a custom setting. I only used the custom setting so far but the others are easy to operate. You just push the button to the setting you want and a blue indicator light will turn on next to the button. This says its all set, it will turn on and off at the designated times. If you chose to use the custom my time setting, it is simple to set up. Set up is similar to the same way that you adjusted the time. You push the custom start button, and use the arrows to select your time and push the custom start button again. The same for the custom off button. After you plug it in, plug the device in and select the timer button you want to use. A blue indicator light will turn on to tell you that it is set. There is also a countdown feature that will allow you to have it turn on for a specific amount of time, say for 2 hours and after that it will turn off. Overall this has made my life a bit easier. I don't need to remember to turn on/off my light to my bonsai tree in the morning and at night. This will make sure that everyday my tree gets the much needed light it needs to survive even if I am not home to to do so!

I have had several of indoor timer models from different manufacturers. I can tell you its extremely frustrating to reset a hard to read not intuitive timer that does not hold the setting through a loss of power (which happens more often that you think in rural Iowa where I live). The myTouch is intuitive and extremely easy to use. The myTouch timer holds the setting through loss of power and is very easy to set plus the manufacturer has default settings that make things very easy and those setting are perfect for my needs. I also have the myTouch outdoor version which I use for Christmas decorations - it was because that model worked so well that i got the indoor version reviewed here. p.s. There is an option to rate Sheerness but I have no idea what that means in the context of this product so left it un-assigned.

Excelente producto.