BN-LINK Timer Outlet Short Period Repeat Cycle Intermittent Digital Timer, Interval Timer - Day, Night, or 24 Hour Operation, Programmable Plug-in Timer for Appliances Electrical Outlets 15A/1875W

This is a really good repeat timer and I highly recommend it. I use it to turn a hot water recirculator on for 1 minute and off for 13 minutes since it’s designed for an apartment building and pumps way too much water for our home. I also bought the BN-LINK analog repeat timer, but much prefer this one. I’ll be returning the analog timer and buying a spare digital timer in case this one fails.The analog timer worked OK, but had several problems that were fixed with this one. The analog knobs were too easily moved when installing the timer, whereas the digital setup option is simple and intuitive. Plus the digital readout tells you which is counting down, ON or OFF, and how long before it turns to the other state. The analog timer didn’t have such an indication.I looked at the instructions and decided to try it on my own and that worked. Hit SET once to enter setup mode. Hit SET again to go from HH:MM to MM:SS for the first setting, then hit SET each time you’re happy with the numbers, etc. I have it in series with a Z-Wave switch that is set to turn on at 6:30 AM and off at 11:30 PM. If we want hot water during the night, all I have to do is use TotalConnect 2.0 to turn on the Z-Wave switch, which automatically starts this timer in its 1 minute on mode. It then goes to 12 minutes off. If I want to save energy, I then need to turn it off with the Z-Wave scene turning it back on at 6:30 AM.

The perfect answer to my problem - having a therapeutic ice machine cycle on and off every 20 minutes. Made things much easier than trying to program a clock timer.

Needed a repeating timer to control "fog machine" for halloween decorations. Fog machine I have runs continuously and thus runs out of liquid to fast. This device was intuitively easy to set (no instructions). Set it for 3 seconds ON and 12 sec off (which gives the desired effect of fog and keeps machine hot enough to blow more fog when it has AC voltage again and comes back on). Was concerned that when this timer lost it's power, would it remember the last settings it had, or would you need to reset it. The answer is YES, it does remember it's last settings when unplugged. Like the digital display. This repeating timer does get slightly "warm" on the right side. Nothing I don't think to be worried about however. It is nicely built and hopefully will last several years at least. You can hear a relay inside the unit when it toggles on/off. Wish it would have been little less money, but with the quality and since it was exactly what I was needing, it is worth the price paid.

We have in-line hot water circulator at our house. It works great but I can't keep it on more than 5min at a time. Anything longer causes cold-water line to carry hot water as well. So, I had attached it to a manual timer. Before taking a shower, I press the timer button turn it on, 5m minutes later, time is up. This was good. However, the hot-water line gets cold for other times and I again need to activate the timer. This us frustrating to say the least. Then I came across this unit. I set it as 2 minutes on, 15 minutes off. I can see what the timer is doing at any time, day or night. Now we have continuous hot water and cold water stays cold. The timer is easy to set or reset. As the weather conditions change, I can set it to a different on/off combination.It's not cheap but I like it so much that I ordered another one for other uses around the house, expected to be delivered today!

The unit gets a 3.5 from me because the instructions don't really help getting to the off timer. I have a house fan I want turned on and off but had a devil of a time getting to the minutes off setting. After I set the 'on' timer I couldn't get to the 'off' timer. Whenever I hit set to go into 'off' mode it went into the 'on' setting again and kept counting down, and when touched, reset itself and began to count down again. I set the 'on' to 00.00 and basically & just 'banged' buttons til I got to the off minutes setting. BUT, the unit works like a charm. On for 10 minutes, off for 7. I just pray to the universe I won't have to change the setting soon. One buyer had some instructions, which may help others out.Or, if others can tell me how to program the unit I would appreciate it. Thanks

Perfect, easy to use. Does exactly what it's ment to do very well

I use this device in “24 hour mode” to automatically reboot a 5G internet modem / gateway device every night. The 5G device sits at a remote cabin and occasionally glitches and thus stops providing internet to our mesh WiFi system, rendering security cameras and other smart devices inaccessible when we’re not at the property. I’ve set it to run for 23 hours 59 minutes and turn off for one minute. This schedule turns power to the 5G device off for one minute at 3am every night, then powers it back up — effectively rebooting our 5G providers internet gateway device. Yea, one day I will have them replace the gateway, but I’ll still use this device to automatically reboot it for us every night, ensuring our internet always runs.

Here is my situation. I run an air compressor overnight to spray water in CNC machine as it's cutting a long runs. I only need to spray water every so often and this seems to be a super easy way to run my water every 10 minutes for 3 minutes increments. Works perfectly! I've played around with different lengths of time I need to use the water and found the perfect runtime.