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reydavid 
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 4:21pm |
What is the deal with getting a good lighting timer? I have so many timers plugged into the power strips I can't figure out why nobody has figured out a good way to get it alll together! Does anybody have an answer? If I made a power strip with 6 timed outlets would anybody buy it? Help! 
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Adam Blundell
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 4:31pm |
Talk to Dave Nellans. His electrical set up is the best I've seen in the club.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 4:32pm |
 Adam Blundell wrote:
Talk to Dave Nellans. His electrical set up is the best I've seen in the club.
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I've seen it, very cool!
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 4:34pm |
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You can buy 4 pole time clocks that are computerized but they are really spendy! The Neptune jr. will operate alot of things also and doesn't cost alot.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 5:04pm |
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Invent it and make money! I am using the neptune now but I think it would be cool if they had a reef specific light timer strip.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 6:03pm |
I have a cool timer...can't remember the name of it. But I got it at Incredible Pets in Sandy.
It is shaped like a surge strip. It is set up so that two plugs are powered while two are not. Then when the first two are shut down, the other two come on. This works great for lighting my aquarium. One timer runs my display tank's lights )PC's) AND my refugium. That way when my main tank is lit, my 'fuge is dark. When my main lights go out, my 'fuge is then lit. All with the one timer. Of course, my MH's are on a different timer. I will check tonight when I get home for the brand of timer.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 6:20pm |
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I'll try and take a picture of my handiwork to get up for you
guys. if you can diy you can make a pretty slick setup for not a
lot of $$ using just those cheap $3 light timers you can find
everywhere.
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reydavid
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 6:22pm |
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Alright, I'm going to try to build a prototype and bring it to a future meeting. I use 5 timers now, 2 MH's one for my refugium, one for actinic and one for VHO's. I leave the starlights on all the time becuase there's no room - ouch! I imagine that there are lots of aquarium fanatics out there who would love a power strip timer with 5-6 timers for individual plugs and 2-3 always on plugs...I'll post progress here.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 6:52pm |
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reydavid, this is almost exactly what i've built but with just 3 timers, easy to extend out to any amount.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 7:19pm |
I got a copmuter that runs my tanks. And I did not spend much to do it. It runs my lights, pumps, heaters, wavemaker and my probs.
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 10:19pm |
Here is a link to what one of the other members has done. It will cost a little bit however it is much better in the long run than a power strip. You can look under the diy topic, it was posted in April or May of this year.
http://www.utahreefs.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=620 4&KW=lilbeag
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Posted: August 18 2005 at 11:15pm |
Here is a picture of a LILBEAG exclusive. (thanks for your help Cody)
4 timers/ 2gfi's (one for top half of tank and 1 for bottem half)
Cody's thread was posted April 05 in the DIY section
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Posted: August 19 2005 at 9:28am |
OK...Here is the timer I use...
http://www.esuweb.com/cardfile.asp?ItemNumber=01690&IDPr oductRelationship=253
It has two outlets for the daytime timer, two outlets for the nighttime timer and 4 "always on" outlets.
Thay also have a digital version: http://www.esuweb.com/cardfile.asp?ItemNumber=01692&IDPr oductRelationship=381
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