Awesome timer-switch...

[Tzortzakakis Dimitrios]

Of course, german. What is your equivalent in the States?
http://www.theben.de/alle_produkte.html?L=1&prod_id=3371&sub_r=1
Has solved many of my customers' problems. For instance, timer controlled
lightning in shops (at night) and at my holiday house, in Vori I installed
an automatic watering system with this very timer and a 3/4" and a 1/2"
solenoid water valves (and two plug-in relays).

 

[James Sweet]

Of course, german. What is your equivalent in the States?
http://www.theben.de/alle_produkte.html?L=1&prod_id=3371&sub_r=1
Has solved many of my customers' problems. For instance, timer controlled
lightning in shops (at night) and at my holiday house, in Vori I installed
an automatic watering system with this very timer and a 3/4" and a 1/2"
solenoid water valves (and two plug-in relays).

I've never seen anything quite like it here. Looks like a piece of
industrial control gear, not like what you'd find in a residence.

 

[Tzortzakakis Dimitrios]

I've never seen anything quite like it here. Looks like a piece of
industrial control gear, not like what you'd find in a residence.

It's a generic timer, you can use it for whatever you like. For the
automatic watering system I had to improvise, because the summers are very
hot here, and the lawn needs watering twice a day, and we don't go there for
months, and I can't ask the neighbour to do the watering. The solenoid
valves come up to 2 1/2" IIRC and they're italian.

 

[Tzortzakakis Dimitrios]

It's just a DIN rail mount like your average CB !!

This reminds me of the old joke, in heaven the cooks are french, the lovers
italian, the policemen english, the engineers german, and everything is run
by the swiss.
In hell the cooks are english, the lovers swiss, the policemen german, the
engineers french, and everything is run bu the italians.

 

[James Sweet]

It's just a DIN rail mount like your average CB !!

Well whatever the case, I've never seen anything like it in the US.

By CB I assume you mean circuit breaker? That depends on the manufacture
of the panel here, there are 3 or 4 different standards.

 

[Ross Herbert]

:
:? "James Sweet" <[email protected]> ?????? ??? ??????
::> Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
:>> Of course, german. What is your equivalent in the States?
:>> http://www.theben.de/alle_produkte.html?L=1&prod_id=3371&sub_r=1
:>> Has solved many of my customers' problems. For instance, timer controlled
:>> lightning in shops (at night) and at my holiday house, in Vori I
:>> installed an automatic watering system with this very timer and a 3/4"
:>> and a 1/2" solenoid water valves (and two plug-in relays).
:>>
:>>
:>
:>
:> I've never seen anything quite like it here. Looks like a piece of
:> industrial control gear, not like what you'd find in a residence.
:It's a generic timer, you can use it for whatever you like. For the
:automatic watering system I had to improvise, because the summers are very
:hot here, and the lawn needs watering twice a day, and we don't go there for
:months, and I can't ask the neighbour to do the watering. The solenoid
:valves come up to 2 1/2" IIRC and they're italian.


Such DIN rail mount timer/controllers are fairly common. Here's a data sheet for
an Australian made unit http://www.aicpl.com.au/brochures/rm4tmr.pdf for
operation from 12V - 48V dc and a range of common ac voltages from 24V - 240V.

For a dedicated application such as an irrigation controller I think it would be
far cheaper and more practical to use something like one of the range of
Irritrol units http://www.toro.com.au/irrigation/irritrol_category.cfm?cat=8

 

[Tzortzakakis Dimitrios]

On Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:50:33 +0300, "Tzortzakakis Dimitrios"
<[email protected]>
wrote:

:
:? "James Sweet" <[email protected]> ?????? ??? ??????
::> Tzortzakakis Dimitrios wrote:
:>> Of course, german. What is your equivalent in the States?
:>> http://www.theben.de/alle_produkte.html?L=1&prod_id=3371&sub_r=1
:>> Has solved many of my customers' problems. For instance, timer
controlled
:>> lightning in shops (at night) and at my holiday house, in Vori I
:>> installed an automatic watering system with this very timer and a 3/4"
:>> and a 1/2" solenoid water valves (and two plug-in relays).
:>>
:>>
:>
:>
:> I've never seen anything quite like it here. Looks like a piece of
:> industrial control gear, not like what you'd find in a residence.
:It's a generic timer, you can use it for whatever you like. For the
:automatic watering system I had to improvise, because the summers are
very
:hot here, and the lawn needs watering twice a day, and we don't go there
for
:months, and I can't ask the neighbour to do the watering. The solenoid
:valves come up to 2 1/2" IIRC and they're italian.


Such DIN rail mount timer/controllers are fairly common. Here's a data
sheet for
an Australian made unit http://www.aicpl.com.au/brochures/rm4tmr.pdf for
operation from 12V - 48V dc and a range of common ac voltages from 24V -
240V.

Indeed, they are. They're cheap, too. Mine cost 40 euros the single channel
model, and 43 euros the dual channel, with invoice and wholesale discount.

For a dedicated application such as an irrigation controller I think it
would be
far cheaper and more practical to use something like one of the range of
Irritrol units
http://www.toro.com.au/irrigation/irritrol_category.cfm?cat=8

I've got one of those,
http://www.gardena.com/opencms/open...t=PK410&scat=PK41005&prod=4078500182508&bls=0
But it works only on a 9 V cell (needs a fresh one every year), the previous
one we had needed servicing every winter, and it's embedded, sealed
construction meaning I can't service it myself. And a 9V alkaline goes for
5-6 euros here, meaning that the system with the timer has covered its
initial expense (and no service as for now, since 2004).The other one (the
gardena) has been very reliable up tillnow, knock on wood.