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Just finished cycling my tank and have been reading all the horror story posts about runaway heaters. I just wanted to get some advice on a plan I have in mind to provide extra redundancy to the heating system. My tank is a Red Sea 525XL (139 gallons total water volume).
I was thinking of (2) 200 watt Schego heaters controlled by an Inkbird wireless enabled controller model ITC- 306A, but then going a step further and plugging the Inkbird ITC-306A controller into another Inkbird heater controller model C929A that has it’s own dual probes. Setting the secondary controller with a slightly wider temperature spread to act as a backup if the primary controller should fail. So as I see it I would have 3 layers of protection against a runaway heater. The 2 lower wattage heaters, the primary heater controller, and the secondary heater controller.
So to those who know more than I, would this setup work to provide the extra redundancy I am thinking it would, so I can sleep at night. Thank you for your input.
I was thinking of (2) 200 watt Schego heaters controlled by an Inkbird wireless enabled controller model ITC- 306A, but then going a step further and plugging the Inkbird ITC-306A controller into another Inkbird heater controller model C929A that has it’s own dual probes. Setting the secondary controller with a slightly wider temperature spread to act as a backup if the primary controller should fail. So as I see it I would have 3 layers of protection against a runaway heater. The 2 lower wattage heaters, the primary heater controller, and the secondary heater controller.
So to those who know more than I, would this setup work to provide the extra redundancy I am thinking it would, so I can sleep at night. Thank you for your input.