That was CLOSE!

[Wiskey]

About a month ago I bought a temp controler, with it I am able to use my fans as "cool" and my heater as "heat". Now since the heaters are no longer fighting the fans, I was able to remove one of the 300 W heaters, and save power. I put the heater I removed in a drawer where it would not be damaged.

Yesterday I was preparing for a large water change on both my tanks, mixed in an acrilic tank I have laying around. My normal 50W heater was not going to heat this much water so I pulled out the heater I had in my drawer, taken from my main tank 1 month earler. When I went to bed it was working perfectally, brought the water up to temp and was maintaining it there, when I woke up the water was up to 87.9 DEG and the heater was locked on.

Imagine if it had done this before I had the temp controler! A heater locked on combined with the heat of all my pumps, lighting and skimmer, especially because the fans used to shut off with my lights!

Just complaining, and very glad the heater waited until now to blow!
Whiskey

[REEF-DADDY]

Glad it did not nuke your tank. Remember:

If it can happen it will!

[Loverotties]

That was lucky!

[gman0526]

A good donation is in order to your local church, sinagoge, mezquite, temple, which ever you prefer. A higher power was working on your behalf

[Wiskey]

Originally Posted by gman0526

A good donation is in order to your local church, sinagoge, mezquite, temple, which ever you prefer. A higher power was working on your behalf

Indeed, I felt a little silly spending $100 on a temp controler,.. I justified it by thinking that in a year this will probably save more power than that, but I don't feel the least bit silly right now!

Thanks all, check your heaters, and if you can, replace one big one with 4 small ones if you don't have a temp controler. It may save your tank! If you do have a temp controler, and you have the controler set to fire up the heater at 79, then set the heater to 82, that way if the controler failes you the heater will shut itself off before the tank gets too hot.

Whiskey