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Aqua Medic magnetic valve keeps busting time switches

Jink82

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I've got this magnetic valve http://tinyurl.com/q79vvmg. And it snaps really loud when it's going on (is this normal?). Already i've got three broken time switches. The first one I doubted the quality of it but It can't all be the bad quality of the time switches can it? Has someone encountered this problem?

I've already been looking at this http://tinyurl.com/lcl6dra. But will it solve this problem or is it just the magnetic valve and should I return it?
 
Nothing surprising here my air pump destroyed numerous cheap timeswitches. They are really designed to switch non inductive loads ie not motors or solenoids but heaters and lights. Usually failed as in timer just reset to 00:00:00 but eventually stopped.

Mechanical segment timers 3 for £10 at Ikea don't suffer from this nor do more expensive quality (£20 odd) ones.

I now use the Byron Homeasy remote controlled sockets of which I operate 6 on, including solenoid and air pump and have no issues.
 
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