How to use timers to save money and reduce harmful carbon pollution.

1. Put lights on a timer. Setting a timer to turn off lights after hours or when the sun comes up is a simple and effective way to cut down on holiday electric bills

2. use a timer on space heaters to turn then on when you need them and off when you don’t ( like when you leave you house) be sour to use an outdoor timer that says heavy duty.

3. pool pumps only need to run for 6 hours a day any more than that is just a waste of energy consider putting them on a timer so there only allowed to run 6 a day ( peferabibly at night because electric rates are mutch cheaper.)

4. Your cable box, could be using more energy than your refrigerator. Cable boxes, also called set-top boxes, consume the same amount of energy if not more required to run a refrigerator. When you turn it off you thing it’s off but it just uses 1 less watt of power costing you money and producing a ton co2. Consider plugging all your internment equipment in to a surge protector. Then plug the surge protector in to timer so that it can’t run at night.

5. block heaters set a timer turn them on 2 hours before the hours of day you use you truck. You could save between $20 to $40 a month on your electric bill.

6. vending machines use timers to turn them off at night and on again in the morning.( use digital timers so if the power goes out for an hour or days you don’t haft to reset it)

7. Install a hot water heater timer it could save you $50 a MOUNTHY on your electric bill

8. hot tubs there just like having an extra hot water on all the time. Put them on a timer so there only on the hours of day you usually use them. They make hard wire timers for this easy to install. You can usually find a video on YouTube on how to install them.