ENERLITES Programmable Digital Timer Switch for Lights, Fans, Motors, 7-Day 18 ON/OFF Timer Settings, Single Pole, Neutral Wire Required, UL Listed, HET01-C, White, 2 Pack

Had it for 3 yrs now and it is flawless. Use in my deluxe chicken coop to light the way for my chickens in and out of their roosting area. Easy to program as the seasons change. Would definitely buy again.

They work great and a little hard to program at first .

It wasn't hard to figure out the wiring, that was pretty straight forward, I've wired switches before. Worst problem was the box was crowded, it's a dual switch for porch light & inside foyer lights. My goal is to have it turn the front porch light on at dusk and off at dawn, 7 days a week. I don't need or want the random stuff or the other 17 schedules. Just one program, off every morning, on every evening.I got the clock set and that works fine. I set ~program one~ at all seven days, on at 8pm, off at 6:15am.And that's as far as I got with it. The instructions are as clear as a bucket of mud. They are obviously translated (poorly) from Chinese.The touch panel seems to make contact with three different buttons that say "MAN" which are obviously the manual override buttons.But why three of them? Are they all identical? Or does pressing different ones do different things? I can't figure that out. Why not just ONE button?So then you press them and it cycles through the options of:1. Man ON2. Man OFF3. Auto ON4. Auto OFFIt seems if the display reads MAN ON or MAN OFF, the light is on or off and does not operate in auto mode and won't revert to the schedule.If it reads AUTO ON the light is on even if it's the middle of the day. And it if says AUTO OFF and it's the middle of the night, the light is off despite the schedule.So the past two days it would not shut off in the morning no matter what the buttons are set to. Yesterday I set it to AUTO OFF and it stayed off all day then when 8pm came it turned on as I would expect it to. But this morning it did not turn off at 6:15 as it should have.It just doesn't seem to want to shut off on it's own. I have no idea why and I don't know if I'm pressing the right buttons.The instructions are just stupid and make no sense at all. Like my thermostat there should be a RUN button that you press after you set the program. I'm going to give it a few more days before I junk it and go buy one at Lowe's. It was cheap enough to make it not worth the hassle to ship back if it's defective. I don't know if it's not working right because it's a POS or if I'm using it wrong. For now I rate it at OK but I may downgrade it in a few days if it turns out to be defective.edit: A few notes I forgot to mention. Pressing the buttons does cycle the light(s) on and off so the switch mechanism is operating. I can hear a relay click as the lights go on and off. It's just that it will not ~automatically~ turn the lights OFF by schedule. It does turn them on automatically.The light is a pair of standard old school Edison socket front porch lamps on either side of the front door that were wired to a single on/off switch. They originally had a 40 watt "flame" shaped ornamental bulb in each fixture. I replaced those bulbs (before installing this timer) with a pair of GE brand, 2.5 watt / 100 lumen "flame" shaped ornamental LED bulbs. So the total load on the switch is only 5 watts.Added a photo of one of the lamps that is wired in parallel.Edit: I FINALLY, FINALLY figured this stupid thing out!When I programmed it I ASSUMED that the DAY setting would apply to both the on and the off time during programming.Once again it was turning ON at night, per schedule but not turning off every morning.I was trying to make a new timer setting for timer 2 thinking the #1 spot was messed up. I entered the ON time then had to press DAY several times until it showed all 7 days of the week. Then when I went to set the OFF time for 6:15am I noticed that the DAY setting went from showing all 7 days, it was only showing TU which is right now! ZING! So then I pressed DAY several times and it then showed all 7 days on the OFF time.REALLY? REALLY??? Why would it not just use the same DAY entry within a single timer entry? SO STUPID this thing is!The instructions are a 100% FAIL, they are completely worthless. It took me a week to finally stumble upon the right way to program this thing by pure accident.I suppose that with all things considered the potential ways you could program this thing would make a back hole collapse in upon itself and swallow the universe. Doctor Who would have a nervous breakdown trying to operate this thing.Now that it works right I'll bump it up one star. I almost gave it zero stars this morning and a few whacks with a large hammer until I stumbled upon the right way to program it. I can't give it five stars because,1. It's overly complex with far too many potential options.2. The instructions are complete rubbish. Throw them away and start poking buttons, you'll eventually figure it out before you'll comprehend the rubbish instructions.If they would make it LESS STUPID and have someone that SPEAKS ENGLISH to write proper instructions it could be a 5 star gadget.The price was right but really, it's driven me insane trying to figure it out.

I used one of these to control my outdoor lights. Light sensors didn't work becase the porch light was located in a shaded area and never turned off. This unit turns them on and off each day. Easy to install and program. I really only needed one but the price was like getting two for one.

This timer-switch was a 1st and 2nd attempt to replace a timer-switch that stopped working after 5yrs.The timer has pretty good features. It also has some severe limitations. The programming instruction was confusing and poorly written. After multiple attempts to program the units, my observations centered around the AUTO feature. It was inconsistent on turning on the light at the proper time. Sometimes the light turned on. Other times not. Neither unit ever turned off the light. In MAN mode, the unit did turn on and turn off each time I pressed the control switch.When using the first unit, I gave up after many attempts of reprogramming it hoping that it would work. After several days and many tests, I returned the unit.I ordered another unit figuring that the first unit was defective. I receive the second unit only to discover that Amazon sent out an unit that someother customer returned. I went ahead and installed/programmed the unit. It had the same fault signature. I returned that unit.I solve my problems by purchasing a GE In-Wall Sunsmart Digital Timer from Menards. Its programm instructions was easy to interpert. The unit had a feature that allowed me to set it up prior to installation. I set it up and installed the unit in the electrical box. It work like a charm.I did a little more digging for information. I found that all these units were built in China by the same manufacturing company. I guess the GE production run had more quality control than did ENERLITES.A lot of energy was spent to reach a solution to my switching problem. I hope this note can save someone else time when solving a similar problem.

Works great, I love it knowing that I won't have to switch on&off the switch