Inkbird ITC-308-Wifi

[Nick Park]

Anyone had experience with setting these things up? I wanted to check I've understood them right and have them set up to do what I want them to do.

I travel frequently with my work - usually only away for a few days at a time - and I'm a bit paranoid about equipment packing up when I'm away, and wiping out my stock, so I run 2 filters and 2 heaters on each of my tanks.

I'm not particularly worried about a heater dying altogether, as the other one will take up the slack and keep the water warm enough. But I do worry about heaters jamming in the on position and cooking the fish. So I decided to fit temperature controllers to each tank. I got the Inkbird ITC-308 with wifi, so I can set them up from my phone and keep an eye on temperatures even when I'm overseas.

The only problem is that the manual instructions aren't entirely clear - at least to me. The tanks normally run at just over 27 celsius (81 F). So if a heater jams on, I want the power supply to cut off at 29, and then once it drops too low to come on again at 25. Can anyone tell me, from the below screenshots and photo, if that's actually what I've programmed it to do? I don't want to be on the other side of the world and then discover too late that I've done it wrong.

 

[Rocksor]

Since this turns on both heating and cooling, the high temperature value is the max temperature required for cooling and the low temperature value is the minimum temperature for heating. I'm guessing you have a surge protector connected to the heating portion of the outlets for multiple heaters or just one heater and not the cooling outlet.

I'm not familiar with the app. What is your set desired temperature on the controller. (TS value), 27C? If so,the heating outlet will kick on at 25C based on the heating difference value.

 

[Fish Tank Travis]

I’m going to have to check out this WiFi model. I was not aware they made one.

 

[epond83]

The low temp value is when the heater shuts off, once the temp drops to the heating differential 2* it will turn on the heater until it gets back up to the low set point.
When the temp is 2* above the high set point cooling will turn on until it comes down to the high set point.