New heavy duty 1000 watt heaters came in

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clekchau

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with a continous drip of 8 gph of cold water, my temps starting to drop to 76 degrees at night even with 4 ebo jaeger 300 watt heaters running full blast, so i bought 2 1000 watt jehmco heaters with a temperature controller that will handle 2400 watts. these things feel solid!

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Do the heaters have regular 120V plugs on them? I already have a controller but am thinking about replacing my glass heaters.
 
steve mcnello, i have not tried them yet, hopefully they will only come on at night for a few months or so, the only time it really gets cold in dallas. during the day the tank temperature is fine. in my saltwater setup, i don't even need a heater but i'm also not dripping cold water in that system.

Dan F, it is not the standard plug but this which was included with the controller:
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but it hooks to a 120v 20 amp circuit.
 
clekchau said:
steve mcnello, i have not tried them yet, hopefully they will only come on at night for a few months or so, the only time it really gets cold in dallas. during the day the tank temperature is fine. in my saltwater setup, i don't even need a heater but i'm also not dripping cold water in that system.

Dan F, it is not the standard plug but this which was included with the controller:
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but it hooks to a 120v 20 amp circuit.
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Hopefully people only use that adapter with a true 20 amp circuit and not less.
 
1,000 watts 24/7 is like 43 bucks a month (I've heard using different formulas) Soooo I think my pond is going to be native lol. Keep us updated on how these work!
 
JK47 said:
Hopefully people only use that adapter with a true 20 amp circuit and not less.
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he specifically told me to use a 20 amp circuit. they wired a relay or something to the controller, 1 plug handles 1000 watts, 1 handles 1400 watts. does that make sense because i'm no electrician just repeating what he told me would work for my needs lol
 
Steveo McNello said:
1,000 watts 24/7 is like 43 bucks a month (I've heard using different formulas) Soooo I think my pond is going to be native lol. Keep us updated on how these work!
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If your bill would only be $43/month, you have some of the lowest electrical rates in the country. It would cost me $244.80/month to run 1,000 watts 24/7. The national average is $.11KWhr.
1,000 watts 24/7 at $0.11KWhr = $79.20/month (1 x 24 x 30 x .11 = $79.20)
 
clekchau said:
he specifically told me to use a 20 amp circuit. they wired a relay or something to the controller, 1 plug handles 1000 watts, 1 handles 1400 watts. does that make sense because i'm no electrician just repeating what he told me would work for my needs lol
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A relay has a coil, normally open contacts, and normally closed contacts. Without more info I can't tell you how your system works, but can give an example of how the relay works. Lets say you have a traffic light, you can run a wire from the red light to the relay. When the light is yellow or green no power will be going to the red light, therefore the normally closed contact will be energized and the walk sign will be energized. When the red light is lit the coil on the relay will pull in breaking the normally closed contact and closing the normally open contact, walk light de-energizes and don't walk energizes.
 
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