timer for my light please help

Hope someone can help me i am RUNNING A 400W mh LAMP and have bought loads of timers for it and they all last a few days and fuck up its doing my head in i have got imershion heater timers rated timers to 400w and they all die. When the light is idol its pulling 2.2amps and on start up its pulling about 3.5amps can anyone recommend a good timer and where to get one from because i will be going to flowering cyle in a few weeks and will need a good one by then at the moment i can just leave it on all the time which is not nice for my electricity bill!!!...........................:(

I'll copy/paste a reply I did not 1 week ago...

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Originally Posted by turtle420

AHAHAHAHAAA!!!!

Thanks for that dude... thanks :dance: :dance:

As for timers, you can go to your Home Depot and buy some heavy duty timers... don't be cheap... don't be afraid to pay $... good stuff costs money.

Get the HEAVY DUTY ones... Not the 3-pronged, white-for-the-family-room timer...

NO GROWER!

You need to get the ugliest one... the one in the metal box... the one that has levers and mechanisms around the clock... the one that, if you're not carefull, will give you a nice maaaaaad jolt of electricity... the one that has the highest AMP rating.

And, don't connect your lamps, all to one timer!

I would use ONE of those heavy duty timers for EACH of the 1000watters....

And, one heavy duty one per pair of 400Watters...

And two fans max per timer... a separate timer...

There are very cool scientific formulas you can use to determine how much AMPs your stuff is pulling.

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you're house's circuit breakers should be up-to-spec too... don't want no wires melting inside the walls... don't get scared... sorry.... get a smoke alarm... and fire extinguishers... for the kids.


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I hope this helps...

-turtle420 :cool:
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BTW: How are you measuring the amps? Do you have a fancy voltmeter or something?

Hello Priecy :) Have a look at this thread, maybe you possibly need one of the relay switches ;)

http://boards.cannabis.com/showthread.php?t=33541


love mand xxx:)

yer i have an ameter i use in work i am an engineer

by the way thanks for the reply