Re: [GSAS-Member] Coralife Light that Sizzled

[macker <macker@gmail.com>]

Shango,

#1 I would evacuate your house and rent a hotel room for at least 2 weeks,
to verify if that smoking issue is ok.

#2, take your hood into a petshop for testing, they all seem to do it for
free. They have w/ me in the past, but I went to that really cool place on
university around UW, what is it, the fishstore/petstore or something? If it
works, but a new bulb.

Ive had corrosion on end pieces of the base, and after cleaning and drying
worked fine. Granted Ive never seen smoke

- macker

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Erik Olson <erik@thekrib.com> wrote:

> Here here!
>
>
> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Steev Ward wrote:
>
>  My crotchety opinion:
>>
>> What we would all like is a basis for pretending that we will never have a
>> problem. Buying a new light would let us do that. Then if something goes
>> wrong at least we will can shout indignantly "That was a brand new fixture!"
>>
>> On the other hand, I would want to know why the light malfunctioned. If as
>> is most often the case with Light Sizzle there is corrosion on the end-piece
>> which is conducting electricity then you would want to eliminate that as a
>> cause of future problems by addressing the moisture issue. And if replacing
>> that piece and keeping it dry makes the risk of failure equivalent to that
>> for a brand new fixture then why not do that? But that assumes that you
>> would rather invest time and money in the old fixture than in a new one. I
>> just threw out a light because it would take too much TIME to mess with, and
>> therefore wouldn't be cost-effective to make it work.
>>
>> Steev
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----
>> From: matt kaufman <igotadose@hotmail.com>
>> To: gsas-member@thekrib.com
>> Sent: Mon, October 19, 2009 11:25:09 AM
>> Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Coralife Light that Sizzled
>>
>>
>> Throw it all away and start new. It's not worth the risk. $300 for new
>> fixture + bulbs, or fires/shocks/who-knows-what...
>>
>>
>>
>> I'm always deeply suspicious of the products of the tropical fish
>> industry, esp. fish food but unless the fixtures and bulbs are all UL
>> approved, I'd shy away from them. It's just a hobby, after all.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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