These timers seem to be very robust and one has been operating for several years without any problems. After a period of rain I turned the tap off to prevent the timer turning the water on. The "err " message was there when I next went to turn the tap on. Judging by the intstructions there is an internal battery of some kind which flashes a "OP" message. I took out the main batteries and the "OP" signal started to flash, I then removed the four screws from the back of the timer but could see no obvious way of resetting it. I took a guess which luckily turned out to be correct and briefly bridged two contacts on top of the timer (see picture). The screen went blank and when I re-installed the batteries it had re-set itself to. All buttons are also working.
I imagine that there have been many of these thrown out with the garbage un-necessarily when the solution is quite a simple one. Pope would be doing a service to the planet by fitting these timers with a reset.
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