IntermaticET90815CR 365-Day Electronic Astronomic Time Switch - 120/208/240/277 Volt SPDT, 30A with Ethernet Capability - Durable NEMA 1 Indoor Steel Case for Advanced Energy Control

I'm not entirely sure how someone with 3-4 years experience working with a simple electronic timer fails to be able to operate it... I installed 3 of these in Wendy's restaurants as part of a power saving initiative. It's probably worth noting the ones I put in had 16 seperate controlled circuits, not 8 as this model does. The total cost of putting the 16 circuit in, which includes tons of delay on makes, wire, high voltage contacts and various other electrical controllers, was nearly $6000. And... it paid for itself in less than a year. I will say this, the instruction manual makes it hard to follow.. it's like reading a different language. However, the technical support staff (ALL IN THE USA!) are incredibly helpful. With just a few minutes on the phone with them this turns from a seemingly impossible to tame beast to an easy to navigate electronic timer. For people who can't grasp the button pushing programming, there is a computer interface card that can be added to allow programming of this timer from a desktop computer with a few mouse clicks and the number pad. All 3 of the timers that I've put in were done in 2007 and are still working great. Never had an issue with any of them! In fact, the only reason I looked this up at all was because one of the locations just changed their hours of operations and I had to reprogram their timer, easy. After that I thought... I wonder how much these are now and here I am.

This product adds meaning to the phrase not user friendly. None of the functions are intuitive. I started a job that required the use of this and the guy that had used it for 3-4 years had great difficulty in showing me how to use it. He is a computer wiz that creates web pages, he is also a DIY carpenter that completely rehabbed his own home. In short he can do just about anything except easily operate this timer.(The only reason I gave this one star is because it was impossible to give NO stars.)