Faulty Mister Timer?

CrestedL

CrestedL

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Didn't know what forum to post this in so figured I might as well put it here :/

I purchased the mistking starter system a while back, no problems with it, I've loved it, but I can distinctly remember it when I first set it up never working and it would always have a black dot on the bottom right corner, I had it plugged in I'm a strip outlet with an air conditioning unit also plugged in, and when reading I read it could be sensitive to that so I plugged it into a wall but not before resetting the timer, after that no more black dot, no more problems, all was happy

Just now I heard the sprayer go off at its programmed 12am time for 7 seconds (reduced because my gecko likes to climb on the nozzle rarely and I don't want him getting spooked by it suddenly turning on) but while listening to it run I heard that it never turned off after 7 seconds, and I always leave it on OFF AUTO so it will come on on its programmed time then shut off when done. I was messing with the ON AUTO OFF setting trying to get it to turn off, it wouldn't, so I unplugged it and turned it to OFF then plugged back in, and for some reason the sprayer kept going, come to find out that pesky black dot is back. I'm keeping it unplugged for now, going to try to reset it in the morning to see if it fixes it, but I'm just curious to know if this black dot means anything or what I can do to prevent it and kinda use this as a fallback plan if the reset doesn't work

Edit: don't know if it will help, but I'm including a pic of the timer in its current state, sorry for the quality
 

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CrestedL

CrestedL

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Thankyou for the response aimless, but I really only want to use that as a last resort as I know it can sometimes become a huge fuss with trying to get a specific part and with extra costs at purchasing a new one I want to make sure I do everything possible first, I tried resetting it but black dot is still there, when run I could hear a faint beeping noise before the sprayer came on and continuously sprayed, I'm read through an instructions guide on it and I managed to make another circle come up so I'm going to reset it again with the other circle and see if that works, if not I may try moving the plug to another outlet, I've removed the gecko for the time being to preform these tests so he doesn't get soaked in the process, but please if anyone knows how to fix this or what the dots mean I would love to know
 
CrestedL

CrestedL

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Ty eliz, I'm going to give it one last try by resetting while still plugged in and if that doesn't work then I'll send a ticket
 
CrestedL

CrestedL

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Seems to have worked, isn't constantly going and the programming works again, black dot is still there, next programmed time is at 9 so I'm going to see what happens then

Edit; spoke too soon, still malfunctioning, guess I'll send them a ticket
 
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