Heater failure!

[Austin1234]

Don’t know how I’m ever gonna be able to have a good nights sleep again after this. I don’t know how it didn’t trip a Gfci or something it just burned up. It charred the wood it was hanging on and melted the heater controller above it also. It’s a hygger 1000w. is there anything extra I can do to make things safer? Some how fireproof around the controllers?? I ordered new different heaters, the same ones that I’ve been using on another setup since 22 without issue Aqqa 800w. I want the heaters to be reliable but also if they do fail I would much rather it fail in a way that does not burn my house down.

 

[tlindsey]

didn’t trip a Gfci

I would think it should have. Have your breaker panel inspected.

 

[duanes]

I have had a number of heaters fail, mostly in the ¨on¨position.
After a number of failures, I started using 2 (even 3) undersize heaters per tank, that way in case one fails and needs to be shut down, late a night, the other(s) will pick up the slack, and under size heaters have less chance of quickly cooking the fish, if they do fail in the ön¨position.

 

[Austin1234]

I had 2 of the 1000w running on my 600, I’m gonna switch to 2 800w and maybe a 500w.
I read the Amazon reviews yesterday and mine wasn’t the first to do this same thing. Had me pretty scared not gonna lie.