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Originally purchased in October. Seemed perfect. Stopped working in December. Restarted it, and it worked for a few more days, then seemingly dead. Tried again to charge and set it this week. No go. Threw it in trash. Started researching other outdoor digital timers that are reasonably priced. None had the features of this one that I need. While reading about a different timer, their info said "any problems, hit the reset button". AHA!!!!! Even though there is a reset button on this unit, it is only mentioned in the instructions for initial setting. No troubleshooting section in instructions. I should have thought about it, but my brain is already overloaded with other stuff. Retrieved from clean trash (thank goodness.. still empty except for the timer). Charged it again (5-10 min), hit reset button. Reprogrammed everything… BTW, programming is pretty easy. The unit is working again….for the past few hours. If it stays on track, I may upgrade my rating. If it fails again…..downgrade.

UPDATE: One week later, and still working perfectly. Hoping this continues. Will update if not. One more star…….

UPDATE: 2 months later and still ticking along merrily.

Update: 5 months later… still chugging along…

Still works great a year later. Back to 5 stars.

Easy to understand instructions, 20 different programs available, compact, NOT a mechanical timer, large LCD timer readout, two 3-prong sockets. I mounted this right next to an outdoor outlet and for me, the short cord is a plus.

I saw questions in other reviews about the ON-OFF button, and it’s really not complicated. Repeatedly pressing this button cycles thru ON/OFF/AUTO ON/AUTO OFF (not necessarily in that order.) When the LCD reads ON, power is supplied to the outlets. When the LCD reads OFF, no power is supplied to the outlets. AUTO OFF means no power is supplied to the outlets UNTIL one of the timer programs says to turn the power on. Conversely, AUTO ON means power is supplied to the outlets UNTIL one of the timer programs says to turn the power off.

Bought this to automate my outdoor fountain. Works great. Tons of options in the settings.

***NOTE: The instructions state: "Select ON, OFF, or AUTO…" which makes it sound like there’s three options. There’s actually 4 apparent options displayed. You can select ON and OFF, but when you toggle to the other options you actually get either "ON AUTO" or "AUTO OFF" on the display. Which means to start the AUTO program with your plugged in devices either ON right now or OFF right now. Then the AUTO programming takes over. Initially it was a bit confusing and the instructions weren’t clear in this one area.