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Mr Bojangles · 02-03-2007, 09:36 PM

Ok I have been playing with this for awhile and have made this DIY wavemaker about 2 years ago and it still working so I figured I would share. Basically its a $4 timer from walmart that instead of switching every 24 hours switches every 60 seconds and its quiet!

Here is the timer from wally-world

here you find the motor and the outlet boxes. The motor justs lifts out and the same for the outlet, but be careful not to lose the spring and switch parts.

Take the motor box out and unscrew and this is what you find

remove the motor from the white box and carefully undo the clear plastic tabs on the side and remove the electromagnet and resistor.

this is where you have fun take the 3 gears out and put them aside

now take the 2 gears you are going to glue together and get a small piece of 3/16 ridged airline tubing and tack it in place with a lil pit of superglue being careful not to get any on the metal shaft otherwise you will never get the gears out. Once you have them tacked in place, carefully remove them and use 5 min epoxy on the rest of to get it to stay (superglue doesnt bond well to this type of plastic) and let cure for 30 min

now put your new gear in leaving the 3 you took out out and put the motor assembly back together. Now take the outlet cover off by the one screw and it should look like this......

you are going to cut and bend the tabs so they look like the pic below. you need to do this so the motor will have to not work so hard to turn the dial so you will need to feel the switch when it takes little effort to turn on and off and you will also be making the switches "click" sound be very quiet to no sound at all.

another shot of the finished part.....

now before you put everything back in the big gear in the middle that spins the timer needs to be loosened a lil bit so just a small turn will do it. To much and the dial will wobble causing the tabs not to catch. Now you can reassemble the timer and it should be spinning once per second and you should have the tabs turning it on and off too. That was the hardest part so you might need to tweak the switches tabs.

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Mr Bojangles Fire Coral Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Port St John, FL Posts: 81 View Gallery Karma Komment	$6 wave maker!!!! Ok I have been playing with this for awhile and have made this DIY wavemaker about 2 years ago and it still working so I figured I would share. Basically its a $4 timer from walmart that instead of switching every 24 hours switches every 60 seconds and its quiet! Here is the timer from wally-world here you find the motor and the outlet boxes. The motor justs lifts out and the same for the outlet, but be careful not to lose the spring and switch parts. Take the motor box out and unscrew and this is what you find remove the motor from the white box and carefully undo the clear plastic tabs on the side and remove the electromagnet and resistor. this is where you have fun take the 3 gears out and put them aside now take the 2 gears you are going to glue together and get a small piece of 3/16 ridged airline tubing and tack it in place with a lil pit of superglue being careful not to get any on the metal shaft otherwise you will never get the gears out. Once you have them tacked in place, carefully remove them and use 5 min epoxy on the rest of to get it to stay (superglue doesnt bond well to this type of plastic) and let cure for 30 min now put your new gear in leaving the 3 you took out out and put the motor assembly back together. Now take the outlet cover off by the one screw and it should look like this...... you are going to cut and bend the tabs so they look like the pic below. you need to do this so the motor will have to not work so hard to turn the dial so you will need to feel the switch when it takes little effort to turn on and off and you will also be making the switches "click" sound be very quiet to no sound at all. another shot of the finished part..... now before you put everything back in the big gear in the middle that spins the timer needs to be loosened a lil bit so just a small turn will do it. To much and the dial will wobble causing the tabs not to catch. Now you can reassemble the timer and it should be spinning once per second and you should have the tabs turning it on and off too. That was the hardest part so you might need to tweak the switches tabs. __________________ Tanks: 125g Reef, 92g corner bowfront anemone tank, 75g aggressive semi-reef Mr Bojangles 120g Money pit! http://www.reefsanctuary.com/forums/...money-pit.html Feeding My Haddoni Blue Carpet Anemone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtgynZHl0ao "Nothing ever happens fast except problems" "The solution to pollution is dilution"