Geyser Timer Switch

Geyser Timer Switch - Hot Savings!

Do you hate waking up early in the morning to switch on your geyser? Do you sometimes wake up late and have to bath with cold water? Is your electricity bill driving you up the wall? Relax, get yourself a timer switch like the one in the figure below.

Timer Switches on a Distribution Board

You can programme a timer switch to switch your geyser on/off on your behalf. This means you'll never have a cold bath again (You'll have no choice when there's no power, it can't help you there). The switch also has a manual override. You can keep it in the OFF position when you are going away on holiday, or you can keep it on the ON position when you need lots of hot water all day long. One of the features I have discovered lately is that you can put it manually on ON mode, then put it on AUTO mode. This will force the switch to go into the ON mode, even though it's not supposed to and automatically switch off as per its programmed OFF time.

A timer switch will cost you around R150 in South Africa and these pay for themselves in about 3 months (Just a guess, I did not do proper calculations). Please get e registered electrician to do the installation otherwise your house might go up in flames due to an electrical fire.