Timer Time

Now that the lamp is in place, we just need to control it through a switch. This took some figuring out and a practice run with a lamp before I was confident enough to attempt it with the real thing. Once I’d worked out that the switch on the side was an override switch for the circuit, and that you needed to leave the whole thing powered on for the timer to work, the next thing was to set the timer itself. It felt like setting a bomb, turning the dial until the pointer roughly points to something that I think indicates the time. Then a pen is required to push down on those tiny segments to indicate when the switch is put into action. The whole thing is wrapped in a plastic bag and is encased in a stone box, though I decided to remove the covering slab and cut a piece of wood down to size for ease of access.