thanks waste.i bought an intermatic 2 line/2 load timer with this in mind, but i think the electrician for the sake of cleaning things up and keeping it together wants to put in some other kind of timer with a relay relative to shutting down the heater. i've decided i'm going to take the day off and be here so i can "check in" on how things are going it will be some kind of panel with a more sophisticated timer..not a big deal as i can use the intermatic elsewhere around round my home and not a lot of money put into it. the timer will have an adjustable relay that will allow me to change the heater shutoff time as i want to.

challenge around here is not a lot of pools are put in so no one really has a ton of experience with pool heater hookups...i'll be there manual in hand.

my main thing is i want to be here to ensure everything works as it should when the guys leave..to hard with our economy to get these guys back in for callbacks these days

the best thing for the money i'm spending is that i've had these same guys do my 2 ngas heaters, a sump pit and a ngas fireplace in my house. i had a problem with the ngas fireplace not being capped quite right that caused a water leak only in heavy rain. i called them and they came out within 2 hours of my call during a 4 day-230 mm rainfall that was keeping them busy with putting in sump pits, securing fireplace flashings,and they came out and during heavy rain rebuilt my cap (wouldn't have caught me on the roof at that time!)..really good service if needed after. i was impressed considering they were going nuts fixing everyone's heavy rain issues that week.(they installed over 1500 sump pits and ran out of pumps! (1500 houses in a community with about 25,000 houses..pretty amazing)

the guys i won't use that are the next "biggest" electrical/plumbing/heating contractor in the city were about 20% cheaper, but the horror story is one of my employees furnaces dies in the dead of winter in january when it was -25C. his wife has an in home daycare so they had to really get a rush on to replace. the company comes in, puts in a new furnace..but for some reason. no new ducting so it's just blowing heat out a small stack into the basement! the owner calls the salesperson who comes out and looks at it,calls the crew back and instead of fixing properly cause they say they are too busy..they literally take ducting and run it up his stairwell and into the rooms across his floor with a promise to come on the monday to fix it up properly. no show from the crew on monday..he calls the salesperson again....sales person demands the money for the whole job up front..owner gives in to giving them 50%..he never sees that crew again and goes to small claims court..meanwhile, has to spend more money with the contractor i use to fix it and in the end will have spent more than he would have him with them in the first place to do it right.