Similar ones to those Tony describes should be obtainable from many hardware stores, they are often called "lamp timers" If it says "digital" forget it, these are old fashioned motors and gears. and switches,
Once you have pressed a selector in to set a time, running the dial round it's travel you can usually feel and hear the thing pass the switch. Many also have a little knob that can be used to manually turn the appliance on/off and this turns when the timer does the job. Only trouble with these beasties is the gears these days are plastic and easy to strip so make sure nothing can get caught in the dial and hold it up. the other end of the spectrum is a timer made by Cobolt from britain that talks and can be set to do similar jobs but is buggy and way way over priced, strongly disreccommended I think it was designed to control portable heaters as it also has a thermostat of sorts. Before you plan to use an external timer on a device that has it's own clock which you can't access, make sure what else may be "unset" or reset when the thing looses power via your external timer. some digital devices save settings regardlesss of power off, some don't. Hope you can still find the good mechanical devices. Tom Fowle On Wed, Jun 09, 2010 at 01:19:14PM -0500, Tony wrote: > The last ones I got from Harbor Freight a couple of years ago have 96 slide > pins around the outer edge of the dial, one for each 15 minutes of the day. > You push them toward or away from the center of the dial to turn the > appliance on or off for the desired times. You can have as many on / off > cycles of any duration as you can manage in 24 hours. The times are written > on the dial but you can set your own calibration by setting one pin on, > turning the dial until the appliance turns on, then that pin will represent > the current time and you can count from there. Might be simpler to have > some one mark the dial and case for midnight so you can reset it yourself if > it gets unplugged or you lose power. > > Tony > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Jennifer Jackson > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 12:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] outlet timers > > Hey Guys, > > Does anyone here use one of the outlet timers that you put in the outlet and > then plug your appliance in to so you can use a timer to either turn it on > or off? I remember my grandmother having them when I was a kid, but I do > not remember enough about the details to know if a blind person could set > them or not. > > I know many items now come with their own clocks and timers, but so often > they are not accessible to set. This is to help with my conservation and > frugality efforts. > > > Jennifer > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Send any questions regarding list management to: > [email protected] > To listen to the show archives go to link > http://www.acbradio.org/pweb/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_p > age&PAGE_id=33&MMN_position=47:29 > Or > ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ > > The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. > http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday > > Visit the archives page at the following address > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list > just send a blank message to: > [email protected]! Groups Links > > >
