Corosion on lighting

[magicreef]

I have 4 compact flourescents from Custom Sea Life installed in my canopy & 1 of them wont work because the on/off switch is all coroded from evaporation. Does anyone have a solution for preventing this? I had glass covers over the water. Was this from lack of cleaning that switch somehow. I don't want this to happen to my other 3.

The switched seized up in the off position & I'm going to try to get replace the switch without having to replace the while retrofit kit of $60.

[maximus89]

I dont know how you feel about diy "do it yoursef" or not but I would hard wire them meaning directly to some timmers I bought mine at home d and they were like 4 bucks you probaly could run all those on one timmer but I would put them on two and then they come on the same time go off the same time everyday.

[magicreef]

They are on timers. I wasn't useing two of them & then the one coroded & when I went to used it agian it was stuck in the off position.

[maximus89]

The switch or the timmer has corrosion on it. If the switch has

corrosion on it cut it out and wire nut the wires back together

I always wrap the wire and solder it and shrink wrap but wire

nuts are good. It should say on the wire its probaly 14/3 wire

meaning 14 gauge 3 wire white,black,green. If it is the timmer I

would extend the wire and get the timmer out of the high humity

area!