Finder Series 84 Smartimer Introduction Video

Video Transcript

Mike

What's up industrial automation world? This is Mike with Scott Equipment Company. Hey, we are happy today! We have Ellis Edwards from Finder Relays here with us today. Ellis is going to talk about the Series 84 Smartimer which has some unique technology that we think you will find interesting. So, I am going to send it over to Ellis. Take it away Ellis.

 

Ellis

Thanks, Mike. My name is Ellis. I cover the southeast for Finder and I am based here out of Atlanta. Today, I want to tell you a little bit about a great product – Finder’s 84 Series Smartimer.  This is our 8402. This is a two-channel digital multifunction timer. So let's start with a point of comparison, something a little more familiar, the Finder 80 Series Timer.  This is our 8001 multifunction multi-voltage timer, and it has six timing functions available to it.

 

So, everyone has worked with something like the 8001 series timer. The eighty-four series really stepped it up. You get that digital level accuracy; you get thirty timing functions available to each channel. And then you have a sixteen amp contact rating as well. So, these are two independent channels, and this little joystick here can program the timer. So, you have sort of a manual intervention there. But let us treat that as a last resort.

 

The NFC chip on board is really the sweet spot. The way this works is that Finder has created a companion app. Our companion app here interacts with the timer, and I can see that I was just looking at relay off and a watchdog. But I could also scan the NFC chip to get the timer’s configuration.

 

So, all I will do there is tap reconfiguration. And then I must make physical contact with the phone and the device, and it says read completed. And then it will think for a second and show me what is on the channel. Same process for writing to the device, I can save a configuration profile in the companion app, I can synchronize configuration profiles between other apps. So, this is a powerful feature.

 

A terrific way to use this in the shop is save the configuration profiles that your customers or their projects require. And then whenever you are installing timers, you pull them out of the box, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, they are all programmed. And all of that can happen in a powered-off state. This becomes a huge time saver in the shop. In a nutshell, you can use the companion app to program multiple timers quickly and easily without having to push any buttons on the timers.   And that is our very, very capable eighty-four series.

 

Ask your guys over at Scott Equipment for your price and availability. But these things have been flowing just fine. So, we will get them out to you quickly. Thanks.

 

Mike

Thanks, Ellis. We know you are super busy. We appreciate your time to explain the Finder Smartimer to us. And if you would like to see Ellis program the smart timer with his phone, just click the link right up here and we will send you over to another video.

 

If you do have any questions about the Finder Smartimer reach out to your local Scott Equipment Company Account Manager. They will be glad to answer any questions or even email us at marketing@scotteq.com. We appreciate you taking the time to watch our video today. Be sure to like the video and subscribe to our YouTube channel for some more great industrial automation videos.