Inkbird itc 308

[Country joe]

Hi,
I'm going to purchase the above inkbird temperature controller, my tank heater is a Aqua heater pro 200W with LCD temperature display, and external thermostat control, anyone who has an inkbird, do you think it would work with this type of heater?

 

[seangee]

Yes it will. Calibrate the heater using a thermometer to a slightly higher temp than you need. Eg if you need 25 set the heater to 26 and the INKBIRD to 25. IMO that gives the best safety and ensures that the heater is only controlled by the INKBIRD unless it fails.

 

[Country joe]

Yes it will. Calibrate the heater using a thermometer to a slightly higher temp than you need. Eg if you need 25 set the heater to 26 and the INKBIRD to 25. IMO that gives the best safety and ensures that the heater is only controlled by the INKBIRD unless it fails.

Thanks for that, as you can tell I'm useless at modern technology I don't know why I bother buying these, the temp I like is 24.0 C so I will set the heater at at 25 and the inkbird at 24, what would be good other settings, I set the both the HD and CD at 1.0 C, but it's the AH and Al that I find a problem, I tried to set the AH at 28C and the AL at 20C but it won't let me, so I take I'm doing something wrong, could you please provide me with settings using 24.0C as my TS.

 

[seangee]

Mine is set at 20 and 30 for my temp of 25.5.

 

[Country joe]

Is that 20 AH and 30 AL

 

[seangee]

Yes it is (Alarm Low & Alarm High).
TBH I have not set up the phone app. If its the wireless one I once got a false alarm while away from home over Christmas. When it goes into an alarm state it cuts the power. Another member here got similar and the supplier said the wireless ones do that sometimes. So I connected it to a smart plug and turn it off for 5 mins every 6 hours. When it does go into an alarm state the only way to reset is to turn off the power. No issues since I have had the smart plug - I figured the fish will always be fine if they have to do without heating for 6 hours. When it did happen I had the phone app and iirc it took around 30 hours to drop to 20 at which point I called a neighbour.
I also have several non wi-fi ones. These are pretty bullet proof.