I'm curious why a manufacturers put countdown timers on rocking platforms, and why users would ever want this feature. Specifically, timers whereby when the timer reaches zero the platform immediately stops rocking. I work in a common lab space with several open-air rocking platforms (e.g. https://www.fishersci.com/shop/products/open-air-rocker-us/88861025), which is used almost exclusively for western blots and similar assays. Every once in a while someone will set the timer on the rocking platform, which cause it to stop rocking. Worse, it tends to stock rocking at whatever angle it was at when the timer reached 0 - which can leave half a membrane in antibody and the other half in the air. This has ruined more than one blot, and I can't fathom why anyone would ever want the platform to stop without manual input. Why does this feature exists? It seems to do nothing but ruin experiments.
Different users might have different strategy and platforms. We have two rockers and they rock continuously. I dont think that blotting platform is stand alone target for companies, they want wide market may be thats why they make rocking platform with rocker and timer so that those who love time setting can also use it. I do understand that you are annoyed by those. You may order new continuous rocker.
I think especially in the clinical environment they use timed-mixing for analytical testing.
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