I recently bought a 250 watt heater. It doesn't seem to be working anymore. What is the average lifespan of a heater?
Life Span of a heater
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all my heaters are over 5 years old, try testing it by seeing it it turns on if you turn up the Temp. Ive only bought new heaters to replace ones that had cracked or busted tubes.
Great topic, I have always wondered about this but have never actually brought it up for some reason.
I have some Ebo-Jager heaters that are well over 10 years old. The average life on a Visa-therm is around 5 years although I have a few pushing 10. The cheepie hang on the back type are shorter lived and often un reliable. I recently have been using the titanium heaters, 5 years running with out any failures.
Joel
Joel
I have a very old (10+ yrs) generic no-name heater which I decomissioned from aquarium duties and now use it in my hydroponics reservoir. There is algea on the inside of it, a bunch of oxide dust in the bottom from the heating element corroding, its discolored from heat, has crusty salt build-up on the outside of it and the rubber sealing the top is so perished that it crumbles in your hand! But for some strange reason it keeps working!? LOL!
ive had mine for 7 years still okI have had mines for 3 years. don't buy those cheap ones either I had one explode on me and it scared me like hell.
The thermostats of some of my heaters are way off and would cook my fish if I weren't careful, but the heaters all work.
There are no moving or anyhow else easily breaking parts on a heater. If well manufactured they should work for decades.
There are no moving or anyhow else easily breaking parts on a heater. If well manufactured they should work for decades.
