gemmy fog machine timer

If you have power to the timer and you can manually press the button and make it fog then you are close, I have done this hack several times, I also found out after several minutes of frustration that the center power button must be in the on position and the timer button must also be in the on position then set your timer dials to the position you want and wait. Note that the machine must be warmed up before it will fog and in some of the ones I have done the power to the remote goes away every time the machine cools down and starts heating again.

how many wires did the original remote have in it? was it 3 or just two? the new timer remote should have 3 wires