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I have owned several tabletop timers like the one pictured but they were by Intermatic. When I needed a couple of more I saw this one but it was by Woods. I thought that this was another example of another company using the same model but with a different name and colored them white. The Intermatics I owned in the past performed great. To my surprise when the timers showed up they did not look like the picture on the Amazon web site. They were white and about the same size as my Intermatics. Both Intermatic and Woods suffer from the same problem of having to plug your appliance (a lamp) straight into the timer plug causing the entire plug(s)to be extended from the wall by about 3 1/2 inches. It would have been better if the engineers could have designed the receptable to be on the side of the plug so everything wouldn't protrude out so much. The Woods timer tells time in 24 hour time instead of the 12 hour version of Intermatic. That's not a bad thing, just be aware of it. For example if you want the timer to come on at 5:00 PM, you will have to set it for 1700. On the Intermatic one of the four buttons is much larger than the other three. That is convenient when you want to manually turn on/off the light. On the Woods the on/off manual button is the same size as the other three. No big deal, but not as convenient as the Intermatic. That's the reason I gave the review four stars instead of three. All of my Intermatics are at least 4 years old and I hope the Woods can last that long as well. I've only had them a month.

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The timing works and works correctly. My biggest concern is that it's limited to a 24-hour readout and does not have a 12 hour option that I can fine. Otherwise it's a good product.

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I looked long and hard locally (Home Depot, Lowe's) to find a switch like this where you could keep the switch on a table instead of plugged directly into the outlet, and I found this one on Amazon. I needed to be able to manually turn it on and off easily, which you can't do with the kind that plug directly into the outlet. This one did exactly what I needed. It is easy to program and works as advertised, and the price was very competitive. Highly recommended.

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Easy to use, reliable. Shows times military style: 8:00 PM = 20:00, which I like but may not be your cup of tea.

Only allows you to have two on/off times.

Has buttons for both up and down adjustments while you're setting it, which is superior to many similar products.

One minor drawback is that the "set" and "on/off" switches are side-by-side and identically shaped. I glued a button on the on/off switch so I could turn it on and off without looking. If you push "set" by accident, it won't turn on or off until you've pushed the set switch three more times.

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I have several of the older models of the timer and they are very easy to use. I only gave it 4 stars, because the older model has a 3 prong plug, has a more neutral, bronze color and a 12 hour clock. These are all minor, but compared to the original, it looses 1 star.