https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/b723152d-f40e-4849-b306-89e6548f4379 Although very popular in Japan, I think these are probably made in China. But they seem quite well built and have features that make them an improvement over the common cheap time switches. Once again I'd like to thanks Jerry and Rosie for sending this along with other things. First good feature is that its based on a traditional rotating mechanism. That makes it easier to program and also gets rid of the most horrible feature of the digital ones.... Crashing. When switching loads like contactors or discharge lamps the cheaper digital time switches can sometimes be affected by the current transient and reset completely to zero, erasing all the programmed times in the process and leaving the load off. The contacts seem quite chunky and decisive compared to some of the creepy little relays in some digital time switches. The battery for keeping the unit running during loss of power is completely replaceable from the front of the unit by just plugging a new one in. Even the posh Sangamo type time switches lack an easy way to change the battery. The use of a simple green LED across the battery as a cheap zener-style shunt is quite nice. It means the voltage across the rails will be capped at about 2V if the battery is disconnected or fails high resistance when it dries out. Apart from the MOV/VDR having no failure protection it seems quite a well designed unit. If you enjoy these videos you can help support the channel with a dollar for coffee, cookies and random gadgets for disassembly at:- http://www.bigclive.com/coffee.htm This also keeps the channel independent of YouTube's advertising algorithms allowing it to be a bit more dangerous and naughty. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:41:54 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://stream.echo6.co https://stream.echo6.co/client/assets/images/icons/icon-512x512.png https://stream.echo6.co/videos/watch/b723152d-f40e-4849-b306-89e6548f4379 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://stream.echo6.co/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.