Alexander1312
Supporting Member
It would be great if someone could briefly explain what I am doing wrong with my Heater Controller and Inkbird redundancy setup.
The way I have done it in the past couple of weeks seemed to have damaged a 'hygger Saltwater Tank Titanium Tube Submersible Pinpoint Aquarium Heater with Digital Thermostat, IC Temp Controller 200 Watt' (reads now 95F while it is only 76F water temperature).
The current setup:
The way I have done it in the past couple of weeks seemed to have damaged a 'hygger Saltwater Tank Titanium Tube Submersible Pinpoint Aquarium Heater with Digital Thermostat, IC Temp Controller 200 Watt' (reads now 95F while it is only 76F water temperature).
The current setup:
- I had initially setup the Inkbird so that it would only turn off the heater controller if it exceeded 79F (target temperature 78F), i.e., protect against a potential failure of the separate heater controller.
- The Heater controller itself was setup with the correct target temperature of 78F (which was initially very correctly factory calibrated as confirmed by Neptune and Hanna temperature readers).
- Unfortunately, this led to an alarm at 2 am at night that signaled that the continuous heating time was exceeded as it would require the Inkbird to stay on the entire time unless there is an equipment failure. I understand there is no way to turn of the continuous heating time alarm and max time is 96h.
- Therefore, I lowered the Inkbird setting to 75.5-78F so it would turn off the heater controller on a regular basis to not exceed the continuous heating time. Unfortunately, this continuous on and off of the heater controller unit triggered by the Inkbird seemed to have damaged it and the probe setting of the heater controller started to deteriorate gradually until this night (2:45 am again) it showed 95F while the Inkbird sent an alarm that the water was below 76F (confirmed by Neptune temperature probe and Hanna reference thermometer).
