> I am looking for a countdown timer that you can set it That would be a pretty easy project to design, and there are plenty of references and info for the building blocks Timer0 interrupts from an easily and sensibly divisible crystal, eg 32kHz, 3.2768MHz, 10MHz etc to tick RAM counters LCD to show time 5 buttons (that could be multiplexed with LCD data lines if using a small PIC) - Clear, Hours, 10mins, 1mins, Start/Stop Relay or opto+triac to switch the equipment Transformerless power for the PIC's Vdd -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.