Posted on Feb 05, 2010

Instructions for zilla digital power center are unclear

I don't understand which programmable numbers on the power strip correlate to the which outlet? there are 8 outlets, 2 yellow (day), 2 blue (night), and 4 general power outlets but there are only 7 programmable outlets. The instructions say that the yellow and blue outlets cannot be on at the same time and when one (day) turns off the other (night) will be able to be powered on. this should mean that there are 6 programmable outlets or 8... but there are 7. I will begin a brute force process of elimination but if someone knows the secrets of this power bar and could share them that would save a lot of time and frustrations.

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I have the same problem and can't get the lights to automatically turn off and on by the time cycle I set. I have to manually turn them on/off which is useless. Did you get an answer?

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The 2 Yellow (Normally OFF in Auto mode) and the 2 Blue (Normally ON) are the only 4 outlets controlled by the digital times... Yes there are 7 programable settings, they all control the yellow and blue outlets. If you remember, your timer is also used as a wave maker.. So we set Program 1 to turn ON at 6am and OFF at 7am (the yellow outlets are ON between 6am and 7am) now we set Program 2 to turn ON at 9am and OFF at 11am (now the yellow outlets are ON between 6am and 7 am AND between 9am and 11am BUT are OFF between 7am and 9am) and so on and so forth with 7 different programs.

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