How often are you guys having pieces of equipment fail? What is failing?
In the past year I had:
- Ball Valves bought at Lowes don't work at all (flood). They are much cheaper than the ones at US Plastics but they don't fully close. I didn't buy it to save money, but because they are small and the only ones that would fit so I don't know how to fix this yet
- Sequence pump leaking, out of the box
- Defective T5 ballast
- Lose wire on new T5 fixture
- A few Intermatic digital timers stopped working
- AB CO2 regulator - needle valve unreliable, needs constant adjustment
- Few Mag Drive pumps failed
- 1 maxijet failed
- 1 Heater short-circuited and burned out releasing chemical in the water - tank crash
- A few air pumps failed
- A few quirks on the Aquatronica controller
- A thousand quirks on the Aquacontroller controller
- Burned out fuse on chiller a couple of times
- 2 Refractometers with rust on the little pins, causing the lid to get stuck all the time
- Plastic air diffusers that have no reliable adjustment whatsoever. Brass models are good but hard to find.
- Retractable garden hose (used for water changes and remote topoff refill) with bends restricting the flow to almost zero.
- 1 DE halide broken during removal from the socket. 1 DE halide broken during insertion in the socket.
I think that's it
