Timer Question

[Myka]

Hey thanks! That's close, but "Can be set to turn on/off 7 times per day" means it won't change it up often enough. I'm thinking if I can't find the type of timer I'm looking for that I will just use an airstone for circulation while the return is off. That would be easy enough...should do the trick too.

[bv_reefer]

no, the woods timer is only $15, has so many programs like timing intervals for instance. for me it's real straight forward, go on at 12 and go off at 7.

[Floop70]

I wonder if the mechanical version would work better for you? I would guess that you can program it on / off as many times as you want in a day.

[Pan]

I would steer clear of the coralife timers, they do not have a very good reputation.

[bv_reefer]

mik_101 got one a month ago or so, and he barely, just barely programed it, there a disaster in terms of programming the times and intervals you want, in general i'd never get a corlife timers myka

[Nevin]

Coralife digital works well for me, but not suitable for this application.

Assuming that a SCWD won't do it for you, what about this?

http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s...duct_ID=wm-nwt

By the way, I assume you've solved this problem, but I notice they're selling egg tumblers at canadianaquatics.com.

Regards,
Nevin

[Glennrf38]

I have one of the Corallife dual timers (not digital) and they can be programmed for every 15 minutes I think. I don't like mine very much as it can't seem to keep time. I have to move it ahead everyday. But other than that it works fine.

[Floop70]

Guess my program is really easy... lights on at 10, lights off at 9... every day.

[Myka]

Thanks for all the input everyone. So far, none of the posted ones will turn on/off often enough except the Coralife ones, and I won't buy Coralife. Those timers are notoriously faulty...ask any LFS who sells them regularly how many they get back in a month!!

I couldn't find a suitable timer in the Woods online catalog, so I emailed them.