Gordonious
Active member
Has anyone else had problems with Coralife Digital Thermometer problems? If not are you really using it like the instructions say to do so. I believe they say to turn the unit off when you are not using it, does that mean when your not looking at it? Or just when it is not in a tank or terrarium and in a drawer.
I have found that you can't turn them off. When you push the power button it thinks the temp changed for some reason. If you push and hold the same thing and it usually doesn't turn off. It seems as if you have to have a stop watch and press and hold for a specific number of seconds. I bought two of them from the same store, but I purchased the second one months later and the store goes threw inventory very fast.(Thatpetplace PA) One of them that started to read very off temp and then the battery expired, this was probably near the end of the battery life. The other I have left on for the longest time. This past week I was at a fellow reefers and noticed he had one. I asked him how he liked it and he said he thought it was great. I asked if he had ever turned it off and he said that he hadn't; when we tried it was the same thing. The unit decided it was a different temp all of a sudden and would not turn off.
I contacted ESU's customer support and they asked me if I would remove the battery and wait a while then try again. I had done it before, but this time left the battery out for an hour and tried.... didn't change anything. I wrote them back the next day and now three months later have not heard from them. VERY disappointing as I had high respect for the company and have thought in the past that there products were pretty solid and worked well. They also seemed like a well organized company, but with poor tech support... Errrr...
So now what do I do? I need a reliable way to watch the temp in my tank. I've used the floating glass thermometers for ever and have tons of them, but I'm starting to trust them less and less as I begin to keep more fragile things. Should I just continue to use the coralife and just leave it one? Battery still lasts a long time. I plan to get a temp probe and connect it to my PC,(probably using Dr. DAQ) but the funds aren't there for it right now.
Jon
I have found that you can't turn them off. When you push the power button it thinks the temp changed for some reason. If you push and hold the same thing and it usually doesn't turn off. It seems as if you have to have a stop watch and press and hold for a specific number of seconds. I bought two of them from the same store, but I purchased the second one months later and the store goes threw inventory very fast.(Thatpetplace PA) One of them that started to read very off temp and then the battery expired, this was probably near the end of the battery life. The other I have left on for the longest time. This past week I was at a fellow reefers and noticed he had one. I asked him how he liked it and he said he thought it was great. I asked if he had ever turned it off and he said that he hadn't; when we tried it was the same thing. The unit decided it was a different temp all of a sudden and would not turn off.
I contacted ESU's customer support and they asked me if I would remove the battery and wait a while then try again. I had done it before, but this time left the battery out for an hour and tried.... didn't change anything. I wrote them back the next day and now three months later have not heard from them. VERY disappointing as I had high respect for the company and have thought in the past that there products were pretty solid and worked well. They also seemed like a well organized company, but with poor tech support... Errrr...
So now what do I do? I need a reliable way to watch the temp in my tank. I've used the floating glass thermometers for ever and have tons of them, but I'm starting to trust them less and less as I begin to keep more fragile things. Should I just continue to use the coralife and just leave it one? Battery still lasts a long time. I plan to get a temp probe and connect it to my PC,(probably using Dr. DAQ) but the funds aren't there for it right now.
Jon
Both my glass temp. reader and the ReefKeeper 2 says the exact same thing. I was thinking the sump is cooler then the display tank BUT that can not be because the water in the sump eventually reaches the display tank. Its next to impossible for 2 tanks connected to each other to be diff. temps... think about it. I'm subscribed.
