Inkbird help!!!

[Gtinnel]

So every 15 minutes then as that makes me feel somewhat better. I just dont understand as my old one was dead on with my Apex.
My temp is doing about a 2.5 degree variation as we had bad power outages here in east Tennessee thus it kept knocking the power out every hour or so

So like I said the chart only has a reading every 15 minutes, but I just pulled both of my probes out of the water to see how quickly the temp would start changing. Within about 10 seconds I saw the value change then a few seconds later it dropped again.
Also my 306A is probably around 5 years old so if you’re right that old ones used to update quicker maybe mine is old enough.

 

[Manose]

So like I said the chart only has a reading every 15 minutes, but I just pulled both of my probes out of the water to see how quickly the temp would start changing. Within about 10 seconds I saw the value change then a few seconds later it dropped again.
Also my 306A is probably around 5 years old so if you’re right that old ones used to update quicker maybe mine is old enough.

Yeah this new one doesn't do that It's like every 30 min or so at least.
I did order a helios because this is scaring me going up and down 2.5 degrees in a 2 hour period

 

[Dburr1014]

I didn't like the swing on my ink bird either when it was in Fahrenheit.

My simple fix was to set it in Celsius. In Celsius you can do x.x setting. It's much tighter.

 

[Manose]

I didn't like the swing on my ink bird either when it was in Fahrenheit.

My simple fix was to set it in Celsius. In Celsius you can do x.x setting. It's much tighter.

Yeah I see you got just a 1 degree swing and I could live with that all day.

 

[Dburr1014]

Yeah I see you got just a 1 degree swing and I could live with that all day.

Mostly 0.75 swing. But I do get the occasional 1 to 1.25

 

[Manose]

Mostly 0.75 swing. But I do get the occasional 1 to 1.25

What are your temp settings like 25.27c to 25.55c?

 

[n2585722]

Yeah this new one doesn't do that It's like every 30 min or so at least.
I did order a helios because this is scaring me going up and down 2.5 degrees in a 2 hour period

All charts are polled and not realtime on any controller so that might be the case that it updates every few minutes in the chart but the on and off function is more realtime. Also there may be minimum on time and off times for the controller.

 

[Dburr1014]

What are your temp settings like 25.27c to 25.55c?

Something like that, lol.
Let me go look.
25c
Ds1 0.1 you don't have that setting?
I would start at a couple points and see how it reacts. Tighten it if needed.

 

[Manose]

Something like that, lol.
Let me go look.
25c
Ds1 0.1 you don't have that setting?
I would start at a couple points and see how it reacts. Tighten it if needed.

Yeah that is the old model we cant set the ds1 on these new ones

 

[deome]

Is there anyway of getting tighter timings from the new inkbird?
I must be the only one the notices the temp on the device takes forever to measure the temp and by that time the tamp is out of my range.
It's set to come on at 77.5 and off at 78
My house is set at 70

I have another inkbird would runing 2 be the way to go? If I did that how would I set them up?
Or get another controller like a eb4?

Thanks for posting this, I was literally just adding the Inkbird controller to my shopping cart, decided to pop here to R2R to fish around for reviews. I'll get the Helio instead.

 

[Manose]

Thanks for posting this, I was literally just adding the Inkbird controller to my shopping cart, decided to pop here to R2R to fish around for reviews. I'll get the Helio instead.

Yeah get the Helio instead cause this think is scary how it updates temp.

 

[deome]

Yeah get the Helio instead cause this think is scary how it updates temp.

I'm replacing my constantly breaking Apex controllers for heating, and honestly a constantly breaking inkbird replacement might have driven me to rage quitting the hobby

 

[BeanAnimal]

Get a Ranco ETC

 

[aquaman67]

I just switched to a Helio this week (they are on sale) because my InkBird 306a just shut itself off.

I woke up and looked at my tank and the InkBird display was off. My tank dropped for 78° to 74°.

I unplugged the InkBird and plugged it back in again and it came back on. But I don’t trust it now. I did not get any notification that it was off or offline. I guess because it wasn’t on.

So now I’m running the Helio but I still have the InkBird plugged in. I can use it to see the temperature online so there’s that. I may set the InkBird a degree lower and put a small heater on it as a back up. But I surely don’t trust it enough to keep it as my main heater controller anymore.

 

[Manose]

I just switched to a Helio this week (they are on sale) because my InkBird 306a just shut itself off.

I woke up and looked at my tank and the InkBird display was off. My tank dropped for 78° to 74°.

I unplugged the InkBird and plugged it back in again and it came back on. But I don’t trust it now. I did not get any notification that it was off or offline. I guess because it wasn’t on.

So now I’m running the Helio but I still have the InkBird plugged in. I can use it to see the temperature online so there’s that. I may set the InkBird a degree lower and put a small heater on it as a back up. But I surely don’t trust it enough to keep it as my main heater controller anymore.

I saw they where on sale and got one. The inkbird is keeping my tank at a 1.5 degree swing but the lack of a real time temp reading just bothers me.
I have an apex and I can monitor the temp in real time, but having 2 devices doing real time readings is what I need.
I might put one heater one the inbird and the other on the Helio just to have a backup.

 

[fishyjoes]

the lack of a real time temp reading just bothers me.

I understand the feeling here, but this is a place where it helps to calm those feelings
Temperature is not a thing that changes quickly and it's not something you need to update/view every second.