Finnex Temperature Controller Electronic Heater

I needed to fix my made in Italy submersible glass heater I bought

from a large pet supply chain store. Initially it was 4 degrees F hotter

than its settings, and a few weeks later, by the time I bought this controller,

it would vary up to 10 degrees more before I manually modulated it (plug/unplug).

After adding this controller, the tank's water temperature stays contant

within 0-1 degree F. Setting on the dial is about 2F lower than my

thermometer's reading, but that's easy to deal with. This setup will work

as long as your heater produces full heat on one of its sensible settings.

If my heater completely fails to heat someday, I can be assured the

replacement heater can't overheat the tank either with this controller working.

One wish would be for some way to detach the probe (e.g. quick connect)

to make tank maintenance easier, as long as it stays reliable.

(An unpluggable temperature probe works for my electric wall oven.)

Recommended for anyone using electric heaters for their tank.

It prevents a heater's built in thermostat sticking on from cooking your fish.

If your thermostat control is poor but turns on, this unit can replace that feature.

I've been using this temperature controller on my 210 gal salt setup with an 800W JBJ titanium heater after the expensive JBJ digital controller died after only 6 months of use. I'm not a big fan of digital controllers as the are very suscetable to power line issues, surges and brown outs and such. I did have teh JBJ unit plugged into a smal UPS to protect it from such interference but it still failed anyway. Must have been poor quality. Not what you expect for a $200 heater pachage. So far the analog HC-0800 Finnex controller has worked flawlessly. The unit looks and feels very high quality and is doing just as good a job as the JBJ digital controller for a fraction of the price. It still needs to pass teh test of time but I have a feeling it will.

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Have had it now for about 6 months. Works well.

I deducted one star as the dial moves too easily so I tape it in place to keep it from accidentally being bumped and moving too high in one direction or the other

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my titanium heaters failed and Finnex did not replace (bad customer service)

the temp controller also failed after a few years....almost fried my fish!

there are better heater products out there

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