Patent ID: 8441155

Claim:
A wall mountable electric timer for switching power to a fan between an “on” state and an “off” state, the wall mountable electric timer comprising: a housing having a front, a back, and side walls extending between the front and the back, the housing configured to be mountable to a wall with the back situated toward the wall and the front facing away from the wall; at least one memory for storing a time-based programmable fan schedule and one or more parameters; a controller coupled to the at least one memory for controlling the switching of power to the fan between an “on” state and an “off” state in accordance with the time-based programmable fan schedule; a user interface situated on the front of the housing and coupled to the controller, the user interface including a display, a first button and a second button; and the controller is programmed such that a user can program the time-based programmable fan schedule and the one or more parameters by interacting with the first button and the second button, the controller is programmed to display one or more screens for setting the time-based programmable fan schedule and the one or more parameters by interacting with the first button and/or second button.