Chaeto reactor

[Bj’s Reef]

I’m trying to make a Chaeto reactor, however I’m Having trouble getting the led lights to work like I want them to. When I plug them in they flash between blue, green etc. I can use the remote to change them to a fixed white light. The problem is when I unplug it and plug it back in it goes back to flashing the colors again. This will be a problem because when the timer shuts off the power during the day and then comes back on at night, it’s back to the flashing lights again. So my question is how do I setup the lights to always turn on white with the remote?

 

[Auto-pilot]

What type of light do you have?

 

[Bj’s Reef]

It’s just a cheap led light strip off of Amazon.

 

[Auto-pilot]

Yeah to be honest it looks like your out of luck if you need to use a timer. You can probobly just leave them on all the time. I leave mine on 24/7 with no issues

 

[APX90]

you may want to return those, im in the process of building one too and picked up red grow light strips on amazon, they only have red leds in them

 

[Bj’s Reef]

No, the one I have has white, blue, green and red. I can select what color I want, however if you turn the power off say with a timer in goes back to it’s default flashing colors. Yeah it’s a seven dollar piece of junk that will cost me more to send it back. That being said what type of strip lights are the rest of you using?