Just need to vent, I guess...

sb1227 · Post by **sb1227** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:29 pm

I read a post from a guy (on reef central) awhile back who had gone out of town when the glass heater broke in his sump doing major damage to the inhabitants in his tank (I can't remember if anything lived thru it). I started thinking it would be a good idea to go with a pro-heat titanium heater in mine. So I installed it last week, it had been doing just fine.....until this morning when I noticed the temp in my tank (usually 79-80 deg.) was over 84! I tried to turn off the heater and it wouldn't cut off, so I unplugged it and turned the sump fan on high and the lights off. So............FORTUNATELY I intentionally use a smaller wattage heater( better two small than one large) and FORTUNATELY I was off today and checked the temp early, or who knows what would have happened to my tank. I think I'll go back with glass, have used Tronic heaters with guards for years without a problem...I'm sure this was just one of those things, but I'm a little paranoid of the pro heat now. Have any of you ever heard of any problems with them? Sorry for the long post...but I got a pretty good scare, Sue

SaltnLime · Post by **SaltnLime** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:52 pm

I wanted one of the didgital Won pro-heat 11's , but I read so many negative posts (from falures to impossible callibrations) that I decided to go with ebo's.

Scott · Post by **Scott** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 7:56 pm

I had the same problem with the Won that is not digital. It took about a year to go bad and it did it gradually. I finally looked at the dial on the heater and it was on the lowest setting, the heater was on and the tank temp was at 84 using two mercury thermometers. I got mine because I had a glass heater that went bad and melted the glass and killed all my fish but two.

Snakeman · Post by **Snakeman** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:18 pm

my proheat came with the plug in prongs upside down so if you pluged it in to a wall socket the temp would be upside down. I just mounted it on a power strip so it still worked fine. Mine has worked great so far, now i'm going to be paranoid.

ShagMan · Post by **ShagMan** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 8:39 pm

Like this one?

I've used the proheat II's for quite some time... I totally trust them. The 240G uses a 1,000w version of the proheat II. The unit uses a seperate probe, and has a accurate LED readout of the temp... the heater unit is a titanium shelled unit, and is seperate probe.

The only negative experience I had was due to the temp probe being ABOVE the water level, causing the heater to go into permanent heater-on mode, due to the 75 degree ambient temp... I shot my tank temp up to 88 degrees within 20 minutes!!! but this was my fault, not the heater's.

Works for me!

First attachment is a view of the LED (when it overheated) the second pic is where I mounted mine.

Post by **snoopdog** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:09 pm

I have been using Ebo Jager since I started years ago, and have had one go bad but it was not in use when it died. Same thing as normal, tgemp stuck all the way up. It is retarded that heater manufacturer's get away with it. I remember back when I was around 18 and I cooked a freshwater tank when the heater stuck.

Brandon · Post by **Brandon** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:23 pm

I once brought the goldfish in from the cold, because the goldfish pond was freezing over. I was saving them!

I set them up a 10 gallon tank with water from the pond and set it on top of a rarely used gas heater. I was so proud of myself. Of course my dad comes home and lights the heater 1st thing. Hrm... at least the two that I missed in the pond survived.

Post by **snoopdog** » Mon Jan 26, 2004 9:29 pm