Finnex titanium vs eheim glass heater

[Martini5788]

I got mine from ectsupply.com cheapest place ive found for them but i cant pull up the site or i would send you the link. Just look for the model number i sent and if your handy you can get it cheaper if you wire it yourself which isnt hard to do.

Is it the electric one or cold?

 

[davocean]

While I love eheim stuff, their heaters from my understanding are what they took over/bought out from jaeger, which at one time at least were pretty good, but like you I had one fail very fast, same as a won.
For all the gear improvements I've seen over the years, heaters still basically suck!

 

[shifty51008]

Is it the electric one or cold?

Im not sure what you mean by that. Ive never seen them described like that before

 

[Martini5788]

Im not sure what you mean by that. Ive never seen them described like that before

 

[Martini5788]

While I love eheim stuff, their heaters from my understanding are what they took over/bought out from jaeger, which at one time at least were pretty good, but like you I had one fail very fast, same as a won.
For all the gear improvements I've seen over the years, heaters still basically suck!

I know, we should complain to the manufacturers. I propose a riot! Haha

 

[Dkuhlmann]

Like she said, where do you plug it in?

http://www.supplyhouse.com/Ranco-ET...ludes-8-Cord?gclid=CPS52fTM_ckCFRCNaQod8JIDJw

 

[shifty51008]

http://www.supplyhouse.com/Ranco-ET...xoTRamZHTFM85e0gTbhHXT6UDDY3jw0hzjhoCbcTw_wcB

Thats what i got, the one linked isnt wired so you will have to do that yourself.

Here is a prewired one.
http://www.morebeer.com/products/ranco-digital-twostage-temperature-controller-wired.html

Ectsupply has them cheaper though. If you dont need the cooling part then go with a single stage like this but not sure if those are prewired or not.
http://www.amazon.com/RANCO-ETC-111000-Digital-Temperature-Control/dp/B0015NV5BE

But now i see what you mean by cold.

 

[shifty51008]

Like she said, where do you plug it in?

http://www.supplyhouse.com/Ranco-ET...ludes-8-Cord?gclid=CPS52fTM_ckCFRCNaQod8JIDJw

That one isnt prewired so you have to wire it yourself.

 

[shifty51008]

http://www.etcsupply.com/ranco-etc111000000-prewired-digital-temperature-controller-p-87.html

There is a prewired unit single stage


http://www.etcsupply.com/ranco-etc211000000-stage-prewired-temperature-controller-p-110.html

Dual stage prewired

 

[Martini5788]

Lol yeah I'm sure that was confusing. I kept trying to link a picture but it wouldn't work for some reason.

 

[Martini5788]

I'm pretty sure I will light myself on fire if I try to wire it myself. And I plan on getting a reef keeper in a few months, and I thought they had a temp module that you
Could add? There is no way I'm going to be allowed to pay 120 for a temp controller. And then get a reef keeper.

 

[shifty51008]

The reef keeper has a temp controller on the main unit.

 

[Martini5788]

And single vs double difference is?

 

[shifty51008]

The single can only control a heater, chiller or fan just a single peice of equipment. where the double can control a heater and chiller or fan at the same time.

 

[Martini5788]

Could the single do multiple heaters? Or just
One? Also I can't tell you how much I appreciate you taking the time to go into detail with this. Seriously, you are the best shifty

 

[shifty51008]

Yeah you can add a plug so you can have 2 heaters. But they will both turn on and off together.

Im glad i can help though.

 

[shifty51008]

Just add something like this

http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/Lev...VJsPqLdG3_nxjrj5gAuru9Ww2MMT1kT5KlRoCD0fw_wcB

 

[Martini5788]

Ok. Thank you for the links. I will try and figure out what to do. The finnex titanium heaters don't get the best reviews online, so that makes me a bit nervous. But I like that they are titanium vs glass. Maybe I will do one of each hahaha

 

[Martini5788]

Just add something like this

http://www.fleetfarm.com/detail/Lev...VJsPqLdG3_nxjrj5gAuru9Ww2MMT1kT5KlRoCD0fw_wcB

That will just plug straight into the ranco right? Or would I have to wire it?

 

[shifty51008]

If you get the prewired ranco then yes it will plug right in, you wont have to wire anything.