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12-09-2006, 11:14 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Fountain Valley, CA
Posts: 405
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Power strip timer.
Anyone know of a good power strip with timers?
I looked at marinedepot.com and the coralife ones got terrible ratings.
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12-09-2006, 11:16 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: CT
Posts: 196
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i have one of the coralife ones from dr foster and smith...the single strip with digital timers...i like it, works fine for me
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12-09-2006, 11:17 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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I use seperate timers that I plug into my strips, I have read of fires with the all in one jobs.
Whiskey
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12-09-2006, 11:20 PM
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Big Fishy
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Fountain Valley, CA
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Wiskey
I use seperate timers that I plug into my strips, I have read of fires with the all in one jobs.
Whiskey
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You talking about the little mechanical dial type deals?
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12-09-2006, 11:28 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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I use a mechanical outdoor timer for my MH tank, it's rated much higher for current than normal ones.
For my softie tank I use 2 little digital $15 deals.
Whiskey
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Life is never more fun, then when your the Underdog
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12-09-2006, 11:34 PM
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I've got the REEF rash!
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 25,814
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Yes,The Coralife are known for burning down your house(It happend to a TRT member) and a small LFS here.I use the cheap $4 ones (3) at HomeDepot.
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12-09-2006, 11:42 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Lawrenceville, GA
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I just bought one of those! NOT coralife but something with a little mechanical thing i think! It has these little buttons and you push down one for every 10 or 15 minutes you want the light on! Are those ok?
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12-10-2006, 04:38 AM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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The push button ones I used for years, I stopped though because most of mine didn't keep very good time after a while.
I never had problems with them though.
Whiskey
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Mr. Jive/Dr. Heckyll
Life is never more fun, then when your the Underdog
Competing against the Giants.
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12-10-2006, 07:25 AM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Ft. Myers, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Gforce3s
i have one of the coralife ones from dr foster and smith...the single strip with digital timers...i like it, works fine for me
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Me too. As far as them being unsafe, they are UL listed (perhaps that wasn't the case years ago). I've been both an electrician and electrical sales rep over the last 25 years and see no reason for not using one as far as safety is concerned. Just don't overload it and be sure to keep it dry!
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12-10-2006, 10:06 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: michigan
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i really dont think theyd be any more dangerous than a regular powerstrip if it were to get wet. keeping electrical outlets dry around an aquarium is a MUST!!! keep them elevated and out of the way, also make sure wires have a loop or something preventing water from traveling down the wire to the powerstrip. mine are mounted on the doors in my cabinet so that i dont have to worry about small spills as much. also watchout for saltcreep, salt is a natural conductor and could also cause shorts if its all over your powerstrip.
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12-10-2006, 10:48 AM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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12-10-2006, 12:41 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
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Quote:
Originally Posted by beechbouy
Me too. As far as them being unsafe, they are UL listed (perhaps that wasn't the case years ago). I've been both an electrician and electrical sales rep over the last 25 years and see no reason for not using one as far as safety is concerned. Just don't overload it and be sure to keep it dry!
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The problem was with the mechanical ones from what I remember.
Whiskey
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Mr. Jive/Dr. Heckyll
Life is never more fun, then when your the Underdog
Competing against the Giants.
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12-10-2006, 12:48 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Lawrenceville, GA
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I'VE HAD A FEW SPILLS AND MAN WHAT A HASSLE THEY ARE! aFTER BEING ELECTROCUTED i DECIDED TO DRILL THEM UP AWAY FROM THE WATER SOURCE ANS KEEP THEM DRY! Anyone else been electrocuted this way?
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12-10-2006, 01:08 PM
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Just some guy, you know?
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: West of Dimples
Posts: 18,458
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Oh yes, I have.
I hang all my power strips on the wall now away from the water, and make sure all my cords have drip loops.
Whiskey
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Mr. Jive/Dr. Heckyll
Life is never more fun, then when your the Underdog
Competing against the Giants.
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12-10-2006, 01:10 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Ft. Myers, FL
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Quote:
Originally Posted by andregarcia_73
I'VE HAD A FEW SPILLS AND MAN WHAT A HASSLE THEY ARE! aFTER BEING ELECTROCUTED i DECIDED TO DRILL THEM UP AWAY FROM THE WATER SOURCE ANS KEEP THEM DRY! Anyone else been electrocuted this way?
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You might have received an electric shock, but believe me, you weren't electrocuted. If you had been electrocuted, you would no longer be a resident of the mortal coil we call life. 
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