Intermatic appliance timer gets hot
edwardh1
| Posted in Energy, Heating & Insulation on
I have an intermatic brand timer on a single light, and the timer box gets real hot
are they all like that?
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Intermatic makes 389,354 different timers.
Some are basic spring wound, from 15 minutes to 12 hours. Other are mechanical 24 hr clocks. Others are electronic with all kinds of different features.
The sping would should not even get warm.
The mechanical clocks will disipate very little heat from the clock motor.
The electronic ones will get a little warmer from the electronics and more so when the light is on if it uses a solid state relay rather than a mechnical one.
But should not get any hotter than a light dim, set on "full" with a similar size load.
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A-holes. Hey every group has to have one. And I have been elected to be the one. I should make that my tagline.