I find the comments on this product interesting. They range from simple installation to it doesn't work. First of all, this is for a single pole switch, which means the light that the regular switch controlled had only one switch that turned it off and on. Single pole switches normally only have two wires coming to them plus a bare wire for a ground. In order for the light in a room to operate, it needs the power wire and the neutral wire connected to it. A switch breaks the power wire to the light. There are two wires coming into the switch, one wire brings the power to the switch and the other wire takes the power from the switch to the light. To make a general statement that wiring this timer is simple and done in 10 minutes is very misleading. Yes, some houses have been wired by bringing the power wire and the neutral wire into the switch box, splitting the power wire and letting the neutral wire run through the electric box behind the switch and on to the light. This is rare for it takes more wire to do wiring this way. Still there is not a red wire and this makes the wiring instructions almost worthless. One has to understand house wiring in order to wire this timer. If there are only two wires (insulated wires) in your switch box (don't count the completely bare copper ground wire), then you will need to have the neutral wire brought to the switch and this can be very time consuming and costly if you are paying an electrician to run the needed neutral wire.
In the majority of the situations, installing this timer is not a simple operation. Even if the correct wires are present, one needs to know which one is the power wire, the neutral wire, and the wire caring the power from the switch to the light. I believe that the comments that said this timer does not work, do not have it wired correctly. The instructions are not at all helpful to anyone who doesn't know anything about house wiring.
Definitely make sure you are installing this where a single pole switch was used. A three-way switch normally has a red wire in the box, but it is not the red wire that needs to be connected to this switch. You will have a three-way switch if two switches can turn the light off and on. One usually finds them at the entrance to a room and the exit from a room if the entrance and exit are at different locations. Woods 59017 Mechanical Repeats Daily Wall Switch Timer
These switches work perfectly. I like how these count down the time remaining with the green LEDs. More presses adds time. There is no option to leave the switch on indefinitely, which is great since it is supposed to be a timer. It's nice that there is only one button under the red LED, it is easy to find in the dark. Mounts flush with the switchplate for a clean look. Solid.
I replaced the of/off switch to the bedroom ceiling fan with this. Now if I don't want the fan running all night, I just click the number of hours for it to run.
ALso folks, this thing has a brother scaled in 5-10-15-30 minutes. After being pleased with the ceiling fan switch I replaced the bathroom vent fan switches with these.. After a shower, I just click however many minutes I want the vent fan to run to remove the steam and leave. Don't have to remember to go back turn it off which is important if the vent fan is pumping out your air conditioned or heated air.
These switches are white, so if you're installing them in an almond colored switch plate (and maybe in a two switch plate (light/fan), for $3-4 at the local big box you can replace the almond colored switches and plates with white ones to make everything match.
These things are much cheaper at Amazon than they are at big boxes, especially if you have Prime.
What a piece of junk:
It will not fit in a dual or triple gang wall box. They don't tell you that. In a sneaky way they say it "fits a single gang box".
It broke on the second day.
It is junk. And I thought Intermatics were bad!
I purchased this timer to replace the lightswitch that controls my outdoor christmas lights. It could easily be used to replace any switch in your home that you'd like to have on a timer. To set the timer, there are 48 tiny switches around a dial labeled with the hours of the day. Each switch controls 30 minutes. Flip out all of the switches for the times during the day that you'd like the lights on. Then twist the dial so that the arrow points at the current time. I posted some pictures to illustrate this.
You can also manually turn the lights on and off by moving the slider switch at the bottom between on, off, and timer.
Installation is easy if you are comfortable working with your home's electrical wiring. Flip off the circuit breaker, grab a flat-head screwdriver and the instruction sheet from the package, and you'll be done in 10 minutes.
This does exactly what I want to do, easily and simply.
fantastic product for the price works on even low wattage halogen bulbs but remember you most have a white constant wire on the wall if not this wont work because it needs a constant electrical current to keep the timer working..
Works great, if you installed the switch correctly and have a neutral wire in the outlet box. I bought this to turn on/off the porch outlets for Christmas lights, since my wife/kids kept forgetting to turn them off. Hopefully this will last a few years. - Bathroom Fan Timer - Leviton - Timer Switch - Programmable Timer Switch'
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