I can not get the timer to come on at the correct time. The dark colors are PM and the White background is white. But AM is from 6:30 to 6:30. I want the lights to come on at 4:30 to 10PM. I have tried the white time and the dark time and can not get it to work correctly. I pulled up the tabs on the time I want the lights on. Is this correct? And also have the witch to 'timer on'

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Actually the timer dial can be either day or night, but usually the dark background with white numbers is 6 pm to 6am (night time)
While the white background with dark numbers is 6 am to 6 pm (daytime)

Gene

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Perform the head cleaner mantenace menu and feed roller cleaner then make a test print.

Vacation timers turn lights on-and-off at random times.

Timer dial rotates clockwise. Notice small arrows on timer dial located below each day letter.
Each day starts at the letter.
When the time-now pointer is at W, then wednesday starts.
For example W is wednesday. And th is thursday. The hours that show between W and th are wednesday hours.

Open following image. The time now pointer is pointed at 4:00pm Wednesday.
The blue letters with white background are AM, and white letters with blue background are PM.
http://waterheatertimer.org/images/GE%2050462%207-Day%20Random%20Vacation%20Timer.jpg

To set current time, rotate dial clockwise until current time lines up with time-now pointer.
Time-now pointer is stationary.
Open following link to see how to set timers by experimenting with features.
http://waterheatertimer.org/How-to-set-timers.html

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You posted under GE 7-day random vacation timer.
This timer shows 7 days of the week.
The nighttime hours are white with blue background.
Daytime hours are blue with white background.
Timer dial rotates clockwise, and make 1 revolution each week.
To set timer, manually rotate dial until current day and hour line up with 'time now' pointer.
Move slide switch to TIMER ON.
Timer randomly turns on-off at preset times.
To watch timer in action: turn lamp ON, plug lamp into timer, plug timer into outlet, and then manually rotate dial clockwise several rotations and watch lamp turn on-off.
http://waterheatertimer.org/images/GE%2050462%207-Day%20Random%20Vacation%20Timer.jpg
http://waterheatertimer.org/GE-timers-and-manuals.html#50462

Each pin/segment represents 30 minutes.
To set timer for 2 hours, move 4 consecutive pins/segments up or down.
For 8 hours, move 16 consecutive pins/segments
http://waterheatertimer.org/images/Raise-segments-240.jpg
Dark background for numbers are usually 'night' or 6pm to 6am.
Timers usually have am and pm printed on timer dial.

Open following link for analog timer instructions:
http://waterheatertimer.org/How-to-set-timers.html
http://waterheatertimer.org/Woods-timers-and-manuals.html#59200

1. To Set Program:

Pull up one tripper

between hour marks

on the 24-hour dial

for each 1/2 hour of

ON time desired. For

example, if timer is to

be ON between 12-2

PM, all four trippers

between those times
must be pulled up.

2. To set time

of day: turn dial

clockwise with the

arrow head pointed

to the correct time.

The dark area

denotes PM and

the white area
denotes AM.
Straight out of the manual. Pull up trippers for all of the time that you want the device to run.
Rotate the time of day dial in the direction of the arrows.
The off/on dial will override the timer until it comes around to the on time again then the timer will control.
Good luck.
Gary

What kind of Woods timer do you have?

Is the dial turning? The dial is the clock. And the clock needs electricity to work, just like alarm clock. If dial is not turning, the wiring is not right.

Does the manual override turn on the lights? Maybe the slider switch set to OFF? Set slider to "Timer" for timer functions to work.

Wall timer:
If you have 59017 wall timer, it has dark PM white AM. You rotate dial until correct time lines up with little triangle located on right side of center knob.


There are 48 plastic pins on dial ... when pins are moved out, the lights are off. For timer functions, set slide switch to 'Timer'
Correct wiring is needed for timer to work:
Timer black attaches to Hot wire from breaker box
Timer red attaches to wire going to Load (lights)
Timer white must attach to white Neutral (or if your box has no neutral, connect white to bare ground)
Timer green connects to bare ground

If wiring seems right but dial on front of timer is still not rotating, then reverse Timer red and Timer black and see if that sorts out problem.

If this is wrong Woods timer, please re-post question.

white is am, dark is pm

It's never going to be perfect (unless the background is quite light in colour), because the copier basically "sees" the coloured background as "gray", and the darker the background the more "gray" it looks. Try setting the original type to "photo" mode, and then adjusting the exposure a little lighter/darker....that's all you can basically do.