Quote: Originally Posted by
2k1Toaster 
Also they took away the 30second/2hour setting for the SDC, which renders the SDC useless for me as everything is way too short a time for pulling the plug, or way too long for pushing the power button. So pretty much completely useless timer options.
Have you tried the "custom" timer setting ?
It defaults to 30sec/30sec but the manual says you can program the settings to whatever you want with the serial connection.
BTW I cannot find how to do this in the manual, but it looks like this is what you want to do.