Well, I saw a good price on a new Green Thumb timer, model 5945.

It's pretty. Snazzy even.

It's got a diaphram valve for longer battery life, nice. Quieter than the ball valve models too.

It's going back to the store tomorrow.

The older Green Thumb timer with the cranky ball valve was actually better.

You could set any program of any length, then press the secret key combo and the Mist Mode would activate.

The new timer takes two big steps backward.

First, you can't set any one program longer than three hours. That's it.

There are seven programs, plus Mist. You can ONLY use Mist on that 8th setting.

And of course it's limited to three hours. No way around it.

You can't set Mist on two separate programs to extend the time.

So, I need to have the Misters running from 11AM to 5PM, and that's impossible without buying a SECOND timer !

Maybe that will turn out to be the lowest-cost way, but I don't like it.

I did a little poking around and found the Melnor model 3060, doesnt seem to have any program length limitations and majority opinon of users was positive. Found prices from $14.85 to $70.00, so deals are certainly available with a little searching. Seems unwise, to me, to allow price to be the deciding factor on something so integral, particularly since the last one you used for ten years!