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beverly pardue wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > It’s good to be back after our “adventure” with Hurricane Dolly. We > were directly in this storm’s path and had quite an interesting time > of it. I have survived another more powerful hurricane but it’s never > a piece of cake. Fortunately, we don’t appear to have lost any fish. > > Anyway, on to aquarium-related stuff, we were without power for 51 > hours. Now that it has been restored, I find that one of my Coralife > Aqualights, a compact fluorescent fixture, will not come on. Instead, > it will flicker a bit near the starter mechanism (not sure what it is > called) and then nothing. I think it may have been in the ‘on’ > position throughout the outage so that when the power did come on last > night, maybe it got too much initial power? We had shut down all > computers, air conditioning, the other tanks’ filters & lights before > the power went out but this one was forgotten. Fortunately, the filter > began working immediately after I plugged it back in. Can anyone > advise as to whether I can hope to do a simple repair on this myself > or if it is time to replace the fixture + tube? I appreciate all > advice, this is a new problem for me. > > Cheers, > Beverly > > Peace, please! >
I would recommend that you get a computer battery back up unit for your aquarium. That way if there is a surge the back up stops it. If it doesn’t the equipment that is plugged into it is replaced in most cases up to $20,000. Also if you need to turn off all the equipment in an emergency, you only have to flip one switch. Most back ups have at least 4 outlets. I had one case where the central support on my 135 dropped out, dropping the light fixture into the tank. ( I cheat. I am to cheap to buy the expensive lighting units. I buy shop lights and set them on the tank.) I came in in the morning, and couldn’t figure out what was wrong with this picture. Then I realized the light was coming from under the water. I flipped the switch on the back up, fished out the light, let it dry out for 24 hours, and restarted it. No harm done. Nadine

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