Temp Alert Emergency - Need help asap

Ashish Patel · Jul 8, 2017

So I am away for a long weekend so I decided to hook up my seneye monitor just to keep taps on the ATO (water sensor) and temperature while I am gone from lastnight until Sunday. The tank has 2 Eheim heaters for reduntancy and tank has always maintained 78-80 Degree (130 Gallon total volume)... I keep the AC on 73 degrees.

This is what it is showing me now that I have checked -I have killed the power to the radions just incase it is high. understand no circumstances I can see the temp rising 9 degrees in 11 minutes. Even if one heater malfunctioned, or if the AC power was cutt off..

I am surely going to invest in 2nd monitor for temperature - but this is really puzzling.

8/7/2017 5:47 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 5:17 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 4:47 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 4:28 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 4:17 PM 79.9
8/7/2017 3:47 PM 79.5
8/7/2017 3:17 PM 79.9
8/7/2017 2:47 PM 79.7

Playa-1 · Jul 8, 2017

Hopefully it's only a sensor malfunction and not something more serious.

Cory · Jul 8, 2017

I doubt it raised 10f in 11 minutes but its possible i suppose

JaimeAdams · Jul 8, 2017

I don't see that happening either. Got anyone that can go an manually check?

Ashish Patel · Jul 8, 2017

I am thinking it could have gone up to 82-84.. I turned of the radions for the day so I know the power did not go off otherwise reeflink would say "offline". Thats pretty much all I can do right now.. Unfortunately, I may have to cut my trip short today and likely leave tonight... Thanks for the quick replies

Cory · Jul 8, 2017

How many watts are your heaters each?

madweazl · Jul 8, 2017

Ashish Patel said:
So I am away for a long weekend so I decided to hook up my seneye monitor just to keep taps on the ATO (water sensor) and temperature while I am gone from lastnight until Sunday. The tank has 2 Eheim heaters for reduntancy and tank has always maintained 78-80 Degree (130 Gallon total volume)... I keep the AC on 73 degrees.

This is what it is showing me now that I have checked -I have killed the power to the radions just incase it is high. understand no circumstances I can see the temp rising 9 degrees in 11 minutes. Even if one heater malfunctioned, or if the AC power was cutt off..

I am surely going to invest in 2nd monitor for temperature - but this is really puzzling.

8/7/2017 5:47 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 5:17 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 4:47 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 4:28 PM 88.9
8/7/2017 4:17 PM 79.9
8/7/2017 3:47 PM 79.5
8/7/2017 3:17 PM 79.9
8/7/2017 2:47 PM 79.7

Where are your heaters and where is your temp sensor? If your heaters are in the sump and your sensor is in the tank or a separate sump chamber, something like a return pump could have failed so the water in the sump chamber is heating much more rapidly than if flow was normal.

Flippers4pups · Jul 8, 2017

I would think that even if the ambient air temperature in the house rose dramatically to say 90-100 degrees in minutes combined with a heater malfunction, that it still wouldn't go up ten degrees in 11 minutes with that water volume.
Has to be a sensor malfunction. Could be wrong, but it jumped quickly and stayed there.

Ashish Patel · Jul 8, 2017

madweazl said:
Where are your heaters and where is your temp sensor? If your heaters are in the sump and your sensor is in the tank or a separate sump chamber, something like a return pump could have failed so the water in the sump chamber is heating much more rapidly than if flow was normal.

This picture is old but you can see the heaters are in the skimmer section, The seneye was placed in the return pump section near the pump!! The vectra according to reeflink is drawing power and reporting healthy - If the seneye sensor is OK something wrong with this compartment could be a huge factor so thanks...

Flippers4pups · Jul 8, 2017

Do you think the sensor may have came loose and possibly fell on or near the pump?

Ashish Patel · Jul 8, 2017

Flippers4pups said:
I would think that even if the ambient air temperature in the house rose dramatically to say 90-100 degrees in minutes combined with a heater malfunction, that it still wouldn't go up ten degrees in 11 minutes with that water volume.
Has to be a sensor malfunction. Could be wrong, but it jumped quickly and stayed there.

Yeah I am telling myself this but you know what I am actually thinking:mad:...

I left last night and installed the seneye it was reporting temperature of 74Degrees.. my other digital thermometer had 78Degrees. Imagine this was when my wife is yelling we have to leave..SO I shut of my cooling fan as i trusted the seneye more than the cheap digital temperature readout.. Plus - I felt the water and it was on the cooler side.. Temperature on the seneye was 79degrees for almost 24 hours strait and then jumped to 89Degrees. I have not been using the seneye for a few months so perhaps it needed to be cleaned or something prior to use! who knows..

madweazl · Jul 8, 2017

Ashish Patel said:
This picture is old but you can see the heaters are in the skimmer section, The seneye was placed in the return pump section near the pump!! The vectra according to reeflink is drawing power and reporting healthy - If the seneye sensor is OK something wrong with this compartment could be a huge factor so thanks...

Any idea what the room temp is? Perhaps the temp sensor has come out of the water some how (e.g. water level is too low in the return chamber)?