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Hi all,
About 12 hours ago one of my 2 x 200W Cobalt Neotherm heaters exploded/cracked leaving a very nasty smell, tripping and killing my GFCI outlet. I immediately removed the heater, did a 30% water change replaced carbon, added poly filter, and cuprisorb. So far everything is *still* alive as far as I can tell. Among the many issues is that my water for the water change wasn't up to temp bringing it down from 79F to 74.9F in about 1 hour. It's the middle of the night and it's hard for me to tell how things are going, but I think the water change was necessary.
I had this heater since 09/2019 (bought from liveaquaria) and it was manufactured on 09/2018. I did do a search and it seems this is a well-known issue with these heaters, but I also read that whatever manufacturing defect should have been resolved in later batches. Has anyone encountered this issue with later batches?
My GFCI outlet is also completely dead; in that, it won't reset any more. I'm assuming it's some safety feature for the outlet itself but could there be another cause? The circuit breaker did not trip. I have an external GFCI that I'm using with another outlet for the time being.
About 12 hours ago one of my 2 x 200W Cobalt Neotherm heaters exploded/cracked leaving a very nasty smell, tripping and killing my GFCI outlet. I immediately removed the heater, did a 30% water change replaced carbon, added poly filter, and cuprisorb. So far everything is *still* alive as far as I can tell. Among the many issues is that my water for the water change wasn't up to temp bringing it down from 79F to 74.9F in about 1 hour. It's the middle of the night and it's hard for me to tell how things are going, but I think the water change was necessary.
I had this heater since 09/2019 (bought from liveaquaria) and it was manufactured on 09/2018. I did do a search and it seems this is a well-known issue with these heaters, but I also read that whatever manufacturing defect should have been resolved in later batches. Has anyone encountered this issue with later batches?
My GFCI outlet is also completely dead; in that, it won't reset any more. I'm assuming it's some safety feature for the outlet itself but could there be another cause? The circuit breaker did not trip. I have an external GFCI that I'm using with another outlet for the time being.