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Happy Easter! Hope you’re all having a blessed day. Today, one of my Kessil a360x lights fell into my tank while in the on position. Yes, that’s right. My light fell into my tank. I walked in and found a glowing blue light in my sand bed.
“ it’s Easter Danny... relax Danny. let’s figure this out... ”
First thing I did was turn the outlet off on my apex. Then I unplugged it, pulled it from the water. Cursed a storm. Kicked a water change bucket across my house and assessed the damage.
Good news is the light was still on. No flicker, no sign of shorting out. The fan was not running... livestock and tank behaving normal. I quickly filled 3 buckets of rodi. I proceeded to dunk the light into each bucket agitating it as much as I could to rinse off all salt contaminants. It was already wet so this could only help. I then disassembled the light, placed the pile of parts in front of a fan for 8 hours and prayed.
Every piece appears dry. My instinct tells me to be patient, but I’m not. I plugged it into a wall outlet (to avoid any possibility of damaging my apex energy bar) and it functions perfect. Intensity and spectrum control works as if nothing happened and the fan runs silent as it did before. After a sigh of relief, I turned it off again, disassembled it and placed it back in front of a fan. My plan is to let it air dry another day. Tomorrow I’m going to clean as much as I possibly can with rubbing alcohol on q-tips and place it back into service.
I’ve noticed all of the motherboard and electrical components within this light are covered and sealed with some kind of rubber coating. I know they’re designed with withstand normal salt spray and higher humidity environments, but if this light ends up surviving I’m stupid impressed.
Any thoughts and or recommendations for further action to help fix my light are encouraged. You won’t hurt my feelings I already know I’m an idiot. This was 100% human error as it was a diy light mount that failed. I will be correcting that problem.
“ it’s Easter Danny... relax Danny. let’s figure this out... ”
First thing I did was turn the outlet off on my apex. Then I unplugged it, pulled it from the water. Cursed a storm. Kicked a water change bucket across my house and assessed the damage.
Good news is the light was still on. No flicker, no sign of shorting out. The fan was not running... livestock and tank behaving normal. I quickly filled 3 buckets of rodi. I proceeded to dunk the light into each bucket agitating it as much as I could to rinse off all salt contaminants. It was already wet so this could only help. I then disassembled the light, placed the pile of parts in front of a fan for 8 hours and prayed.
Every piece appears dry. My instinct tells me to be patient, but I’m not. I plugged it into a wall outlet (to avoid any possibility of damaging my apex energy bar) and it functions perfect. Intensity and spectrum control works as if nothing happened and the fan runs silent as it did before. After a sigh of relief, I turned it off again, disassembled it and placed it back in front of a fan. My plan is to let it air dry another day. Tomorrow I’m going to clean as much as I possibly can with rubbing alcohol on q-tips and place it back into service.
I’ve noticed all of the motherboard and electrical components within this light are covered and sealed with some kind of rubber coating. I know they’re designed with withstand normal salt spray and higher humidity environments, but if this light ends up surviving I’m stupid impressed.
Any thoughts and or recommendations for further action to help fix my light are encouraged. You won’t hurt my feelings I already know I’m an idiot. This was 100% human error as it was a diy light mount that failed. I will be correcting that problem.