Landscape Lighting Manual Timer Issues
A manual timer that hasn’t been adjusted for the season will have your lights on in daylight and off in the dark. It’s one of the most common landscape lighting complaints we service.
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Signs Your Timer Needs an Upgrade
- Lights turn on well before sunset or stay off past dark because the schedule wasn’t adjusted for the season
- Power outages reset the timer and the system stays dark until someone manually reprograms it
- Daylight saving time changes require a manual adjustment that often doesn’t happen
- The timer mechanism is worn, causing unreliable or erratic on and off activation
The Solution: Astronomical or Smart Timer
An astronomical timer calculates the actual sunrise and sunset for your GPS coordinates every day of the year. There are no seasonal adjustments, no daylight saving time issues, and no drift over time. A smart transformer takes this further by adding app control and cloud schedule storage, so power outages don’t erase your programming. Either option is a significant upgrade from a standard analog or digital timer.
In South Florida, sunset shifts nearly two hours between winter and summer. A timer set for a 7:00 PM winter on-time will run your lights in full afternoon daylight by July — and waste electricity doing it. An astronomical timer eliminates this completely without any intervention from you throughout the year.
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