Thanks man and I will have to do some research on those controllers as I know nothing about them.
Came home to an ice cold tank!
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There are LOTS of options.
I use a sonoff TH10, It's something like $13 usd shipped with a waterproof temp controller. I just use it as a high temp cut set at 28°C. It's only accurate to about 1°C so the heater keeps it more stable. I'm using it more as a fail safe. And I control it from my phone while I'm at work which...Is not exactly useful, but whatever I can tell it's my tank's 25C/77F right now.
Interesting.There are LOTS of options.
I use a sonoff TH10, It's something like $13 usd shipped with a waterproof temp controller. I just use it as a high temp cut set at 28°C. It's only accurate to about 1°C so the heater keeps it more stable. I'm using it more as a fail safe. And I control it from my phone while I'm at work which...Is not exactly useful, but whatever I can tell it's my tank's 25C/77F right now.
I can say I have had a time or two where I was trying to figure out why the heater wouldn't work only to realize it wasn't plugged in, luckily this was rather quick each time.
I successfully swapped out the temp probe on the ranco. Apparently you need to coat the probe in silicone for underwater use, which I never did originally. According to the Ranco website they suggest that for aquarium use. So I'm assuming my old probe was just shorting out. The new piece was 13 bucks at Grainger.
