Appliance-chipped timers II

They're relatively new, from a mechanical-priced range for direct
Chinese digital imports, to domestic and variously rebadged, up to
$20-ish on premium digital unit mark-ups, although altogether and
widely averaged out, the digital is no less an accessible commodity.

Newer digitals, however, are buggy and not built to last from a
backing given user stats reporting failure rates. Mechanicals on the
other hand, low end pricing units, are plastic gears which wear out to
the eventuality of time. Stats yet seem indicate the digital will
less likely to last sooner than a plastic gears ground out flat and
round.

Ratings at 15 amps and 1800 watts are common;- the UL tag less so
where UL isn't a Chinese word.

Although new is, for sure, nice. But, as for efficiency and
application, mechanical models do vary from set 1hr., 30 or 15 minute
intervals, with the last at 48 pin-stops.

48 is a lot of stops, no matter the "per minute" digital integral. Of
course a minute is remains one minute in higher precision
applications, whereas a 15-minute granularity, or longer, over the
course of 24 hours to "averaged" applications may slice a few bucks
off that digital counterpart if that's the specified case, at least
for now, along with indicators a digital may be prone to higher fault
failures.

Get lucky with the digital, I've seen some reporting 3 years constant
use from multiple unit purchases and still going.