Timer is a very useful and practical helper for us to control and master our time in our daily life. I think we should keep one all the timer for us to improve our life quality.
However, how can we pick up the right timer?
Generally, there are 3 kinds of timers out there for us to consider:
The digital timer which has two different working forms, one is the rotary digital timer, one is the traditional key digital timer;
The mechanical timer. In this article we will not discuss the mechanical timer, because the mechanical timer has relatively big timing errors.
How can we choose from the rotary digital timer and the key digital timer?
We can consider and compare them from the following aspects:
The display screen
Generally, the digital timer will always have LED or LCD display screen. But we need to consider its screen size, because the screen size decides the timing numbers directly. The bigger the display screen is, the bigger the timing number will be and the easier for us to read the timing.
The methods of timing setting
As for the rotary digital timer, we need to rotate the timer to set the minutes and the seconds. Seemingly, it is easier and faster to set the timing by rotating, but the minute and the second setting should be decided by the rotating speeds and angles. Actually, during our daily use, it is easy or frequently for us to set the wrong minutes or seconds because of the inaccuracy of rotary speed and angle.
While as for the key digital timer, it is much easier to set the timing, what we need to do is just to press the minute and the second keys, as easy as playing a music tape or click the mouse. In our daily use, we seldom set the wrong timing with the key digital timer.
Thus, if you like the speed of timing setting without much care for setting accuracy, you had better choose the rotary digital timer, while if you value the accuracy of timing setting rather than the speed of timing, we suggest you to choose key digital timers such as JIMUTO JDT-303.
The options of volume setting
The digital timer is used widely in our daily life for lots of scenarios such as cooking, yoga, fitness, study, meeting and self-practice. And we need different reminding volumes or different scenarios. For instance, if we use it as a kitchen timer, we enjoy talking or TV shows or cellphone chats in other room or in the living room, we need the digital timer to have louder reminding volume; if we have some small discussion with two or three colleagues, we need the volume is medium for suitable reminding and avoid disturb other colleagues, and if we do yoga or study in our own place, we hope the reminding volume is gentle, so we will not disturb others and remind us well.
So, we should pay attention to our daily or practical use context before we make the decision. Generally, the more options of volume setting, the more practical it should be. While lots of rotary or other digital timers offers 3 options of volume setting, but one of the options is mute. In our daily use, we find that if the reminding volume is mute, the timer cannot remind us in time and well. Why? If the timer is mute, when the time is up, the screen will flash for time reminding, but if we do not pay attention to the timer, we will not see its flashing, while if we have to stare at the timer before the timing is up, then we need to force ourselves to be distracted.
Based on our experience, we do not suggest our readers to choose those digital timers with mute volume setting. Here, we would like to recommend JIMUT JDT-303 for its 3 volume levels, three loud volume level, the medium volume level and the low volume level;
The options of brightness modes
We will not only use the digital timer in the kitchen or in the room or inside our house, we may need to use it outside our house, for example, we need to take it to our picnic or outdoor games with our kids, so we need our digital timer to have more brightness modes to meet our different use contexts.
The options of placing or storing
Our use scenarios are various, so we need to place or store the digital timer as we need, or it will mess up or get missed easily. In our daily use, we find that a digital timer should have at least three options of placing or storing. When we do the table tasks such as round table meeting, we need to place it on the table that every participant can see and hear it clearly, when we use it as the kitchen timer, we need to hang it right to our side in the kitchen in order to mess it with other kitchen tools or ingredients; while if we use it as a refrigerator timer or BBQ timer or grilling timer, we need to attach it to the refrigerator or some metal surface for better reading sight and angle. Thus, we suggest our readers to choose those digital timers have more placing or storing options such as JIMUTO JDT-303.
Battery
Well, we do not prefer those digital timers which are powered by dry batteries or one-off batteries in that we need to exchange them periodically or frequently. We think they are wasting natural resources, wasting money and unfriendly to the earth. And we do recommend those digital timers with rechargeable batteries, with them, we do not need to exchange batteries frequently, we can also save more and do more to the planet. Every one can do more to the earth every day and we recommend JIMUTO JDT-303, the rechargeable digital timer.
DO NOT WASTE YOUR PAID THINGS, EVEN THEY ARE NOT IN USED.
We pay something, because we believe it is valuable and we hope we can make best of its value for us. If the digital timer is only a timer and it will be put away for dust when it is not in use, maybe we need to consider how can we make best of it.
Digital timer recommended from JIMUTO:
