Woods 60 Minute Spring Wound Timer; White, 59717

Perfect replacement

I added this to the housing of my desk fan it is compact & sturdy it is so compact it fit inside the fan housing

Bought two in 2012 and lasted a decade. In 2022 the timer started having issues. It will not stop. Once you start it, the circuit keeps running and will not stop until you manually force it to the OFF position. This happen to both of our Woods mechanical timer around the same time. Finally got around to replacing them and write a review. We bought another brand around the time and and its still working to this day.

This took about 10 minutes to install and I didn't turn the electricity off but you should. The fan was previously installed using a single pole switch, meaning there were 3 wires (green-ground, black-hot, red-switch) for the switch and the load white wire already ran to the fan in the ceiling. There were 3 single pole switches in the electrical box. I removed the fan switch and took the green wire and connected it to another switch grounding screw. The 2 wires from the timer switch were connected to the black and red wires that I had disconnected from the original fan switch using the supplied wire nuts. I put the 3 switch plastic plate on with the 6 original screws. Installed the time plate and hold down screw and the knob. Tested and Done!

UPDATE: The switch hung or went to 30 minutes and was stuck "on" all day when we went out of town. I ordered another one because the electronic ones will not work with my fan circuit wiring. (neutral issue with fan vs. switch location). I will try something another wind-up timer from a different brand if this one acts up. Unfortunately, with my old house, I am not going to do a big rewire in order to use a different electronic timer. As others have noted the "lock nut" is simply too short to hold the Decorator filler plate on when used with a "Decora" style wall plate. When I got the "lock nut" to engage, the filler plate distorted noticeably. After a couple of weeks the timer began hanging up and stopping at about 10 minutes remaining. I removed the nut and plate and the timer worked OK. I noticed that the lock nut threads looked like the standard "1/8IP Lamp nipple". Sure enough the treads matched exactly. I used a 1/2" (I think) long nipple and when bottomed out in the timer, the remaining part protruded enough above the filler plate to allow the appropriate 1/8IP nut to fasten the plate. (this is _not_ the supplied nut, but the local hardware store had both the nipples and nuts) I finger-tightened the nut and it holds the plate nicely without distorting it. I have since tested the fan switch at least a dozen times and it has been working perfectly every time. I am appalled that the dates on these reviews go back to 2013 or so, so this has been a long standing issue. With this modification, the switch works acceptably. It should not have been shipped with this incorrect attaching "lock nut".

Muy buen producto

When I received this, I felt like I just received some half-assembled DIY project from Wish. You're expected to put the face-place on yourself, which itself has no alignment pins (not even to align top/bottom), secure it with a locking nut, and then put the knob on. OK, great. Simple enough, but it already strikes me as something being wrong with this product's design - no other switch, ever, has asked me to put the switch together. Let me reiterate that for those that are skimming. NO OTHER SWITCH. EVER. HAS SAID "SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED". So yeah, I'm going into this with a bit of a confused mind to start with. After I get the plate on, wire the switch up, and install it... I'm left with a face plate that's too large to sit with the cover plate which, already frustrating enough, not only wasn't included, but wasn't even an easy selection. I had to sift separately through Amazon items to find a matching face plate, and hope it was the right "hue" of Light Almond. I got close enough, I guess. But what I wasn't expecting, was that the plate was too large for the hole, in all dimensions... OF A STANDARD FACE PLATE that's been around for decades. So I have to go get the trimmers and hack and slash it down to size to fit flush with the plate... which is what I expect for any wall switch. So now we have (1) a DIY assembly task because they were too lazy to put the SKU's color plate on the switch, and (2) a phoned-in design, too large for a standard hole, that's probably for some proprietary face-plate that they INEXPLICABLY don't provide with the device itself. Icing on the cake is (3) a switch body that's 2-3 times larger, in volume, than the components inside need it to be. So it barely fits, literally with 0mm clearance on all sides, inside the box I'm putting it in. A bit miffed, I get out the cutters and finish the job. And then it doesn't even sit flush, it pokes out like a sore. Look, Woods company. Fitting of a switch in a wall plate has been a solved problem for how many decades now? I can buy a WiFi-enabled smart switch (if this switch had a working ground), and fit it in there, and never have to worry about what plate fits it. I can buy any number of switches from any manufacturer, and they'll fit, perfectly flush, in the same way as every other switch. Why would I have the expectation that your wacky-wonky mounting mechanism wants me to put the final (close-out) panel on the switch FIRST, and then install the timer plate and knob? Why in God's name would any person think that is what you expect us to do? Why do you design your product to need it that way? Do you find it difficult to simply design a timer knob that mounts flush like everyone else, and feel like you need to be Special and Different? Just no. Let this be a warning to anyone shopping for this: this switch is mounted unlike anything you've ever seen before, and the pieces come separately because they want to be "special", make you confused, and end up doing the wrong thing out of intuition instead of the weird "right" thing that they bury in small print, quietly, in a map-sized fold-out document... for what is, truly, the equivalent of a standard light switch.

I had one of these years ago. It sounded like a ticking time bomb. Then it it shut off....CLACK!! This one is silent. Does the job for my bathroom fan. I set it for 30 mins when I am in the shower. After my shower it runs for just the right amount of time. Woods is typically good stuff so I hope it lasts.

Excelente producto buena calidad llegó bien

Good quality. As described.

I use it to control my mixer in which I knead bread dough. Works fine. I don't need to be attentive to the time. The timer takes over. Thank you.

Had a bathroom downstairs with an exhaust fan that would end up being left on until someone would shut it off. It was easy to install and I wished I had bought it long ago cause now you just turn to how long you want it on and it shuts off by itself.

No issues so far. Easy install and does as advertised. Good product !