Wee Mad Arthur
Active Member
Inkbird themselves can’t seem to help me on this one. They tell me my settings are at fault.
Now, I am actually using it on a freshwater tank (I use a different brand on my reef tank) but as lots of people use them I figure this is the best place to get help.
The issue I have is that the Inkbird will randomly power the cooler circuit which then turns my fan on for about 1 second. The other night I was awoken to the alarm going off as well. With both of these issues the trigger points haven’t been met. I’ve tried changing the point at which the heater and cooler are triggered from 0.3C all the way up to 1C difference and changed the alarm trigger to 3C above and below the set temperature. Inkbird have told me that the controller cannot cope with with the low temperature difference and tell me to change it to a whole 3C difference before the heater or fan come on which seems very unrealistic when it’s in use on an aquarium.
I‘ve got the plastic probe well away from the heater in an area of good flow. Unless I’m missing something obvious here I think I need to return it for a refund and buy a different controller as I’m not sure I can even trust it.
Any thoughts?
Now, I am actually using it on a freshwater tank (I use a different brand on my reef tank) but as lots of people use them I figure this is the best place to get help.
The issue I have is that the Inkbird will randomly power the cooler circuit which then turns my fan on for about 1 second. The other night I was awoken to the alarm going off as well. With both of these issues the trigger points haven’t been met. I’ve tried changing the point at which the heater and cooler are triggered from 0.3C all the way up to 1C difference and changed the alarm trigger to 3C above and below the set temperature. Inkbird have told me that the controller cannot cope with with the low temperature difference and tell me to change it to a whole 3C difference before the heater or fan come on which seems very unrealistic when it’s in use on an aquarium.
I‘ve got the plastic probe well away from the heater in an area of good flow. Unless I’m missing something obvious here I think I need to return it for a refund and buy a different controller as I’m not sure I can even trust it.
Any thoughts?
