coralife timers

[arnald]

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.

[o.c.d.]

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.

[Scavenger]

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 crabs]

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

[Tangman]

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-timeras/Marineland+Aquarium+Light+Timer+%2824+Hour%29.html

[e46er]

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

[Norstar]

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

[Treebeard]

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.

[mseepman]

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.

[brizzo]

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

http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/attachment.php?attachmentid=3945&d=1235662337

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

[arnald]

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.

[Green Phantom]

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

[digital-audiophile]

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.