Where do you put your thermostat probe?

[Amber.]

TLDR - where do you stick your thermostat probe? Display tank, sump, or back chamber? (Which chamber if the back?) and why?

Hello,
I have been reading through some threads and found that many people put their thermostat probes in the actual display tank instead of the sump or rear compartment. I was wondering, where is the best place to put the probe? And why?

(I currently have the probe in my display tank by a power head because I kept getting low flow alerts when I would go into feed mode. I also noticed the schematic showed to have one heater in each second chamber in the back, and then add the probe to one of them AFTER the heater. I have not had a truly accurate reading putting it next to the heater itself - so why not solve two problems and just stick it in the front?)

 

[Kathy Floyd]

Mine is in my sump along with my ph probe.

 

[Uncle99]

Sump, first chamber.

 

[FUNGI]

in my DT. I really dont care to know what temp my sump is........

 

[fishface NJ]

sump...where water enters from DT before it goes to socks

 

[Garf]

in my DT. I really dont care to know what temp my sump is........

Where are your heaters?

 

[Reefer Matt]

I put my heaters in the sump, and the probes in the dt. Just my preference.

 

[Garf]

TLDR - where do you stick your thermostat probe? Display tank, sump, or back chamber? (Which chamber if the back?) and why?

Hello,
I have been reading through some threads and found that many people put their thermostat probes in the actual display tank instead of the sump or rear compartment. I was wondering, where is the best place to put the probe? And why?

(I currently have the probe in my display tank by a power head because I kept getting low flow alerts when I would go into feed mode. I also noticed the schematic showed to have one heater in each second chamber in the back, and then add the probe to one of them AFTER the heater. I have not had a truly accurate reading putting it next to the heater itself - so why not solve two problems and just stick it in the front?)

Ideally I'd have the probe just upstream of the heaters, in a closely connected (or the same) chamber. So in normal running you are monitoring the water from the display, however, if the pump that powers the All In One filtration fails, the close proximity to the heaters will turn them off. Placing the probe in a remote chamber (display in this case) to the heaters will cause overheating in the event of a pump failure and simultaneous heater thermostat failure, if the heater has one.

 

[FUNGI]

Where are your heaters?

DT