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Buy "Timer" OTC?

Buy "Timer" OTC?

My wife, recovering from serious back surgery, is in therapy and has a list of exercises to perform.

But she doesn't like counting out, one-thousand-one, one-thousand-two....

She asked me if there was a timer where she could push a button and 30 seconds later it would issue a single "beep".

I could easily whip up such a circuit, but I can't make it very small and in an "esthetic" housing.

Does such a device exist for purchase?

Thanks! ...Jim Thompson

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Jim Thompson
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A sand timer is cheap but ain't got no beep.

Cheers

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Clive
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Clive Arthur

But not convenient to watch while flat on your back with one leg raised and turned out. ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

             I'm looking for work... see my website. 

          Thinking outside the box... elegant solutions.
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Jim Thompson

A pneumatic delay light switch is settable to 30 seconds and will click when finished.

Cheers

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Clive
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Clive Arthur

Buy a stopwatch/count down timer from EBay.. a few $$

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TTman

"Jim Thompson" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

Many cooking timers will hold a set time and just require hitting the start button to run another cycle. Look in a store that sells cooking supplies.

Reply to
tom

Just use a computer or smartphone.

Here's one for the computer.

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Wanderer

And another

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Wanderer

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Since I design chips for smart-phones I wouldn't own one ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

             I'm looking for work... see my website. 

          Thinking outside the box... elegant solutions.
Reply to
Jim Thompson

Perfect.

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Cheers

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Clive
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Clive Arthur

iPod Touch? It does all the same stuff as an iPhone, except without the phone. It's essentially a nice ARM-based pocket computer.

Also around $300 cheaper, and also has a timer app built-in with a very loud BEEP and LED flash on expiration, for our older friends ;-)

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bitrex

Does she have a smart phone? There are apps for that -- but that's all I know. My wife uses an exercise timer that does that.

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Tim Wescott

Just takes the right buzzwords... "count down timer" got me one on Amazon (from whence all good things come ;-) that does just that... and holds the setting, so that you can do repetitive sets.

Thanks! ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

             I'm looking for work... see my website. 

          Thinking outside the box... elegant solutions.
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Jim Thompson

Since I design chips for smart-phones I wouldn't own one ;-) ...Jim Thompson

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| James E.Thompson                                 |    mens     | 
| Analog Innovations                               |     et      | 
| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems  |    manus    | 
| STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142    Skype: skypeanalog |             | 
| Voice:(480)460-2350  Fax: Available upon request |  Brass Rat  | 
| E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com |    1962     | 

             I'm looking for work... see my website. 

          Thinking outside the box... elegant solutions.
Reply to
Jim Thompson

We use them on ESS testing :)

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TTman

while read -p "press enter" a; do sleep 30 ; echo $'\007' ; done

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Jasen Betts

Or make an audio cd with 30 s silence and a final beep. Trigger is the "Play" button of the cd player. A cheap mp3 player would also do the job.

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Peter Heitzer

Does your TV have a sleep timer?

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tom

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