Timer from Home Depot for Powerheads

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  1. skennelly

    skennelly Coral Banded Shrimp

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    I was at Home Depot 7 times over the weekend...don't ask I worked on projects for the house all weekend :eek:. Anyways I ran into a digital light timer that allows you to setup 14 independent on and off times for a day and set it to for monday - Sunday. A setting for on and off is considered 1 of the 14 events. I setup one of my powerheads on it and the powerhead comes on at 14 different times during the day. Cost 19.99.

    For instance I set it up like this

    on 12:00am
    off 1:00am
    on 2:00am
    off 3:00am
    on 5:00am
    off 5:30am
    on 6:30am
    off 9:00am

    and so on until Midnight.

    Interested in your thoughts.

    Sean
     
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  2. Plan2Build

    Plan2Build Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Sean...I am very interested ;D Whtat is the SKU or item number. I would like to pick up one of those devices at least.

    How many devices can be plugged to the timer?

    P2B
     
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  3. Black_Raven

    Black_Raven Scooter Blennie

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    Thanks for the info, I've been looking for a timmer like that
     
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  4. skennelly

    skennelly Coral Banded Shrimp

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    Its a light timer designed to make it look like somebody is home by turning a lamp on and off at different intervals throughout the day. You can only plug one powerhead to it, although I'm sure you could get a plug adaptor and hook up multiple PH, but they would all be on the same schedule.

    When I get home from work I will get the UPC and post it.

    Sean
     
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  5. Matt Rogers

    Matt Rogers Kingfish

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    Wow. Too cool.
    I'd like one for my moonlight.
    Thanks for the heads up Sean.
    :)
     
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  6. Bruce

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    i would do that but...TOO MANY WIRES...*twitch* SO MANY WIRES *FallDown And Twitch*...
     
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  7. skennelly

    skennelly Coral Banded Shrimp

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  8. Plan2Build

    Plan2Build Spanish Shawl Nudibranch

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    Wow....random setting too! :eek: That should make for a nice powerhead controller for varying the current in the tank!

    I am getting two.....

    P2B
     
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  9. Olyoxenfree

    Olyoxenfree Astrea Snail

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    Wow, so many things can be adapted for a marine aquarium. Attach your powerheads to those and that is as real as it gets!
     
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  10. Ice

    Ice Astrea Snail

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    i use somthing similar to turn my metal halides on and off, they work great and they are cheap for what you get, i don't know about the one in the above posts but mine can handle 15 amp loads so you can use them for anything


    Peter
     
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