Not often when the DIY plan goes according to plan. This one was a team effort with my 20 year old middle son (soon to be 21 next month) who has some good basic professional experience with electrical stuff.
Todays job was to replace the indoor mechanical pool timer with a digital one. I had replaced this timer like for like last year mostly because the wiring was the same. But after the 2nd one broke in less than one season, I bought this one right around when I closed the pool in September so I never installed it.
When I opened up the new one to compare the old one the wiring was nothing alike. I know enough about basic wiring to not mess it up but can easily defer to the son who might know better.
After we checked some YouTube videos and he found an exact picture by picture article online how to do it, we were good to go. Only one trip out to two different stores to get some 12gauge wire for jumpers and some extra wire nuts.
Once we had everthing planned out it was just a matter of lining up the new box and making sure the wires reached the little ports. As it turns out we wired it better without combining and using wire nuts since this new design accommodated up to 3 wires per port.
So we combined the wires where possible into the ports. Same for the ground wire instead of trying to twist into a wire nut.
Before and after pics etc. good little father son project and when we turned on the breaker everything works as expected no tripped breaker. Programmed the on off times now just have to see if that works later when it’s set to turn off.
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