No, Encore doesn't run on batteries, it is a repeat cycle timer. It basically repeats cycles every so often. It works like this: "turn on for x minutes every y minutes". The drawback is that you can't turn it off for the night as it always cycles through, so if you set it to turn on for 20 seconds every 4 hrs, it will do 24/7
The nifty trick with the repeat cycle timers is that if you have the "ON" cycle set to say 20 sec, the 1st time you apply power to the timer it will click on for 20 seconds, it will then stay off for the duration of OFF time. This makes the RCT a perfect tool to work in tandem with the regular digital timer, because you can now set the regular timer to turn for 1 minute at say at 7am, 11am, 2pm and 5 pm, whatever pm and every time the timer kicks in, the RCT will only stay on for 20 sec. This makes a powerful combination, because now you can control exactly when you want the timer to go on and for how long, plus, it's safe too, because If the digital timer would fail and wouldn't turn off, the RCT will only stay on for 20 sec, so no big deal there.
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