On Apr 12, 1:19*pm, "Toby" wrote:
"Rob" wrote in message

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I have what Maplin calls a 7-day digital timer plug and although I
have the instructions I cannot get it to work as I want.
(In one application I intend to control a Fax machine:
*only on in office hours and 5 work days per week).

In my timer there are 9 "week patterns" (e.g. Mon, Wed, Fri) plus 7
individual days, and 10 on/off possibilities.
I have assumed that this means that I first set a pattern, then the on/
off times within this pattern.
That is, patterns do not overlap. *Is this correct ?
A link on this group in 2003 about a Micromark timer plug suggests
that the programmes do run concurrently (http://nanohelix.tripod.com/
BQ7DayTimer.pdf).

The instructions that I have seem to "blur" these two settings:
patterns then times.
I just have buttons for Clock, Prog, Day, Hours, Min, Manual (cycle
through On, Auto, Off) and Reset.

I need to know how to set a pattern and then be sure that the on/off
times are applied to this pattern.
Can anyone with a similar device advise me, please?

On the 7 day electronic timers I have, from the normal clock display, you
press

Prog (To select program 1 - ON)
The use hour and min to set the time you want it to come on
then press the day button to select either the single day, or the pattern of
days
then press prog again to select the off time for program 1

So in your situation, you would select
program 1 to come on at 09:00 Monday - Fri
then the next program to turn it off at 17:30, again on Monday to Friday

Leave all the other programs blank.

Toby....- Hide quoted text -

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Toby,
Many thanks for your reply (sorry, clarafication s/b clarification)

If I've got it right, the sequence for the Fax would be:
1. PROG (displays 1 On), set hour:minute to 9:00;
2. Cycle through DAY until the Mon to Fri pattern appears;
3. PROG (displays 1 Off), set hour:minute to 17:30;
4. Cycle through DAY until the Mon to Fri pattern appears;
5. CLOCK to end programming mode.
(Not the way I would design the thing, but . . . )

Is my impression right that once the device is in operation ALL
programs
are running? For example, suppose it is Monday,
Prog 1 On (Mon to Fri) 09:00
Prog 1 Off (Mon to Fri) 17:30
would be turned off at 10:00 by
Prog 2 Off (Mon, Tues, Wed) 10:00

Question: have you found a way of clearing a timer setting back to
--:-- ?
Recessed RESET button clears the entire device, including the current
time.
Not sure what On=00:00, Off=00:00 does but anyway not so neat as
--:-- .
Cheers,
Rob