I ordered this so that we did not have to worry about turning our front door outside light off and on (we have an American Flag out front). It has worked well for us thus far. We did have one issue where I thought the switch has broken all of a sudden, but it turned out that it was the bulb that had blown. When the bulb blows, the switch will not have the minimum load it needs to run (the switch will appear blank as if it had fried out or something). Simply replacing the bulb fixed the issue and I am happy to report that none of the settings were lost! My only complaint is the minimum load requirement. We used to use a CFL bulb in this light socket, but had to convert back to the old-school energy-inefficent bulbs to enable us to use this timer. That said, I would still recommend getting this and am looking at getting a few more for a couple more lights.