coralife timers
 

I bought 2 coralife timers in the last 2 mothes. It works for 2 weeks or so but then it stops working. i wake up and the metal halide's are still on. Anyone can suggest a different timer please.

I've always used the outdoor timers for car, lights, ect. Never had one fail. The only problems are : 1 hour increment setting, No backup memory. I always set one wait half hour set other to counter the 1 hour setting. Canadian tire sells them.

Had exact same experience. Since then bought some $5 light timers at Home Depot. They have 15 minute incriments and haven't had a failure since. I am toying with getting some digital ones, but if it isn't broke, why fix it?

i have a few of them but never really had any problems, i assume you have the digital ones?
i would just check all the stttings makeshure you have the mode on auto and it set too run on all 7 days and make shure all 7 days are programed with the right hours, ive accidently got the am and pm mixed up once or twice and 1 day a week the fish did an all nighter

I have the Maryland ones sold at most fish stores , they are heavy duty and have never worn out out, and they are only ten bucks
http://www.jlaquatics.com/product/mc...4+Hour%29.html

no prolems with mine are you sure you set it correctly?

Home Depot or Costco. They are not digital, but they have never let me down if set up properly

Mine has been working great, after I finally figured out how to program it. I have multiple schedules. On weekdays, on at 6:00 a.m. so I can visit with my fish while I have a coffee, off at 7:45 a.m., on again at 2:30 p.m. and off at 9:30 p.m. The weekend schedule is on at 8:00 a.m. and off at 10:00 p.m.

Speaking of timers...if any of you have the following timer (I know I have two) then you should check to make sure they are not part of this recall.

https://www.intermaticstore.com/dt17recall.pgm

Just a heads up.

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/att...5&d=1235662337

+1 , I use only mechanical timers, never let me down

timers
 

i have the mechanical ones also for my other tank, but i bought ones from king eds for the metal halide and those ones suck. thats the second one and now i'm stuck. I don't know how many watts the mechanical ones are but the metal halide i have with the atinics total up to 760 watts. i also read up on coralife times and alot of people are saying they have had problems.

I had the same problem when I changed my halides from 175W to 250W. I spoke to someone at Coralife and they said it was because of the higher wattage that caused the problem. I had no problems with the mechanical Coralife timer when I was just running the 175W. I got the digital ones from Coralife and so far no problems with the 250W. HTH

Before I bought my controller I always used the mechanical ones. I tried the digital ones once in the past but found that they "lost" time over a period.