Hi,
I installed this timer, and it's working.
I have the porch lights come on at 6 am, and off at sunrise, then on at sunset and off at 11 pm. I like it.
My question is on what the offset setting is for? Is it used to fine-tune your latitude/longitude? (I think so) or to turn the load off after sunrise, and before sunset? (I hope so).
What I would like to do, is have the lights stay on for an hour after sunrise, because sometimes on a rainy or cloudy day it's still quite dark when the timer says it's sunup. Likewise, I would like to turn the lights on an hour before sunset.
The offset setting only seems to allow for a single postive or negative offset time, and I think I'd need two settings to add to one, and subtract from the other.
The programming instructions state:
"0:00" will be flashing to represent the offset time. Choose the amount of time, if any, to turn the load ON/OFF before or after Sunup and Sundownby pressing▲to add time to the Sunup/
Sundowntime and use▼to subtract time from the Sunup/Sundown time. Press "SET"to confirm your choice (up to 3 hours and 59 minutes).
So, if I added 60 minutes, would that merely shift the sunup and sundown times ahead 60 minutes meaning the light would come on a 6am, and go off 1 hour after sunrise, but then come on an hour after sunset?
Or is this exactly the setting I want, meaning it adds or subtracts time before or after sunrise/sunset? Have I got it backwards? I should subtract an hour?