Ink-bird temp controller is ehhh

[Jonreefer]

So I bought an Apexel last week to control my brs titanium heater as well. The apex seem to keep temp rock solid. Then I found out it’s not good to have apex control it as it will kill the outlet from on off cycle. I was doing 1degree swing and outlet was switching around every hour. So I got the ink bird yesterday and well to start it was 2.5degree off I had to adjust it. Now looking at my graph it kinda isn’t anywhere near as good at keeping it in the 77-78 like my apex did. As you can see in pics apex was within .1 degree on temps. The inkbird is all over. I am sure it’s not a big deal in reality to the tank but bummed it’s accuracy sucks. It’s the new aquarium model as well.

 

[Ef4life]

Extra redundancy is nice to have but I’ve had no issues with my apex directly controlling the heater for going on 7 years now. (Knocks on wood)

 

[Sleepydoc]

Extra redundancy is nice to have but I’ve had no issues with my apex directly controlling the heater for going on 7 years now. (Knocks on wood)

Ditto.

 

[Jonreefer]

Extra redundancy is nice to have but I’ve had no issues with my apex directly controlling the heater for going on 7 years now. (Knocks on wood)

I think it was ok to use it with the old eb8 but I have seen people with the new eb832 having outlets die because of turning on and off. I was tempted to buy an older eb4 to add on to plug heater into.