Leviton 612-6230M-W Decora 30-15-10-5 Preset Minute Electronic Timer, White
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Leviton 612-6230M-W Decora 30-15-10-5 Preset Minute Electronic Timer, White
Customer Review: Good product, just make sure your wiring can handle it
Summary: 5 Stars
This is wonderful product for venting the bathroom especially if you have kids. I have one bathroom that doesn't have one and the fan is always on blowing my conditioned air outside. So that is why I got this one.
You need to make sure though that your wiring can handle this. If you don't have a neutral wire at the switch location forget it. Generally this means you need at least two white wires wire nutted together, but there are other ways to have a neutral.
Customer Review: Good timer
Summary: 5 Stars
Works great and eazy to use. Individual LED's make it easy to find in the dark.Customer Review: Great Timesaver
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great time and money saver. You can't leave an exhaust fan on all day and risk burning out the fan motor. We already had two timer switches like these installed, one for each bathroom but we needed a third for the master bath. Luckily, the electricians installed the largest outlet box possible in the bathrooms, because these devices and their connections take up quite a bit of room in the box.
Wiring is not difficult. The only tricky part is hooking up the two black wires -- one is for the line input (power) and one is for the load (fan). I used a voltage "sniffer" to determine which was the line input. I turned off the circuit breaker for switch, unhooked both black wires from the switch, spread them apart so they wouldn't touch, then temporarily turned on the power and used the "sniffer" to see which black wire was hot (the "sniffer growls in the presence of voltage). That one was the "line" supply. Ground and white neutral connections were obvious. I also shortened the four wires on the switch so I wouldn't have to stuff so much wire back into the outlet box. Oh, we also removed the long aluminum tabs on the sides of the switch so that it could coexist in the same outlet box that houses the light switch.
I only wish they had one that worked on the exhaust hood over our cooktop.
Customer Review: Great bathroom fan timer.
Summary: 5 Stars
I have these for each of our bathroom fans. They look great, are easy to install, and keep the bathroom fans from being left running all day accidently.
Like other reiviewers have said, make sure that if you are hooking this up to a fan or other motor that you have line (hot), neutral, and ground wires in the switch box in which you are installing this. Some older homes only have the line and load runs down to the wall switch box. If your switch box only has a line, a ground, and load wire, this timer will only function if the load you are switching is an incandescent light bulb. All other types of loads (fan motors, etc.) requre line, neutral, and ground inputs to this timer.
Customer Review: Great switch
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered 3 of these switches and installed them in an afternoon...I am not an electrician so if I can do this then I believe anyone can handle it.
I did run into a couple of problems that were not listed in the reviews that I read so I will touch on these problems:
1) metal flange: the switch will arrive with a metal flange on the left and right of the switch...this flange can be broken off with a pair of pliers. I had trouble fitting the switch into the wall receptacle until I broke off this flange, then the switch fit perfectly.
2)excess wiring: the switch is a lot deeper then the old switch that it replaced. I had a problem placing the excess wiring back into the wall receptacle, it would not fit behind the switch so I had to maneuver it to the side of the switch.
The switches work perfectly. My wife was totally amazed that I could handle this without hiring an electrician.