Apex jr

Seth Goldberg · May 9, 2017

Last few nights I have had a bunch of alerts go off on my phone. Best I can tell it's related to my heater turning on or off. I have my warning set to 2 degrees below and above my set temp so it should not be that and it looks like the temp has staid fairly stable not sure what it is going on

Bj’s Reef · May 9, 2017

Check your tempeture graph, in the fusion app. Does it show a drop in in temp for a period of time. You should see a big dip in the graph. Also you may notice that the Apex is showing the power on for the heater outlet. However your temp is not going up? If so your heater may be dead. I ask these questions because my heater died yesterday . I got an alert from my Apex, similar to what you have above. I didn't get as many alarms as you did. Because I was playing around with my apex settings as it was happening. I Could be wrong. However check your heater, I bet it's gone.

Seth Goldberg · May 10, 2017

tigerhawk said:
Check your tempeture graph, in the fusion app. Does it show a drop in in temp for a period of time. You should see a big dip in the graph. Also you may notice that the Apex is showing the power on for the heater outlet. However your temp is not going up? If so your heater may be dead. I ask these questions because my heater died yesterday . I got an alert from my Apex, similar to what you have above. I didn't get as many alarms as you did. Because I was playing around with my apex settings as it was happening. I Could be wrong. However check your heater, I bet it's gone.

Looking at the graph for the heater it does look like it's not keeping up with the tank needs but my swing is less than a degree and a half. But it definitely a little weird

Seth Goldberg · May 10, 2017

Now I bought the apex jr used but you can see where the guy I bought it from had an ideal cycle I don't get why mine heater cycle is so much larger

thejuice24 · May 10, 2017

I dont have a apex system. I'm currently doing my reading up on them. Could this be a result of a faulty probe? Just a thought I had.

Seth Goldberg · May 10, 2017

thejuice24 said:
I dont have a apex system. I'm currently doing my reading up on them. Could this be a result of a faulty probe? Just a thought I had.

Not sure I kind of wondered that myself

Bj’s Reef · May 10, 2017

I do believe your heater is bad. Your temp never gets back to your set temp. The swings you are seeing are due to the changes in your house temp. When your ambient temp goes up, so does your tank temp. Put a new heater on your tank and see if your temp doesn't go up and stabilize. What size is your tank.

Seth Goldberg · May 10, 2017

tigerhawk said:
I do believe your heater is bad. Your temp never gets back to your set temp. The swings you are seeing are due to the changes in your house temp. When your ambient temp goes up, so does your tank temp. Put a new heater on your tank and see if your temp doesn't go up and stabilize. What size is your tank.

45g and I'm using an eheim jager 150 that I bought new for this tank so about 3 months old

Bj’s Reef · May 10, 2017

That's a pretty new heater. I would still get a new one. Even if it turns out that it's not the heater, you still need a back up heater so you will not lose anything. Then if the heater turns out bad as I think it is, you can return it for a new one. By the way do you see the Orange light that comes on when the heater is on?