BRS 100w Titanium Heaters: As Bad As The Reviews Say?

[OldRed1]

In the process of gathering equipment for my first build. LFS recommended two 100w titanium heaters for my 25g AIO for redundancy. In researching heaters, I came across the reviews on BRS for their 100w heater, and the reviews are TERRIBLE. Is this just small but vocal set of reviews, or are these heaters as bad as advertised? Do you have recommendations for a different 100w titanium heater? If so, I am all ears!

 

[Falcar]

I'm not sure, but I've had great luck with mine.

 

[BrandonS]

for titanium I have always heard finnex is good. Have not had and direct experience however. I am a big glass tube ehiem guy myself. The other thing to is some people just change there heaters out every year or two just to avoid any chance of issue. If your going to be one of those then I wouldn't worry to much. If not i'd get reviews from as many sources as possible. There is also longevity as The BRS heaters haven't been around for 10 years at this point. So you don't have much long term data. some please correct me if I am wrong.

 

[noobster]

looking at the BRS reviews, looks like the bulk of those 1 star reviews are from the last 6 months. Maybe the BRS titanium heaters had a change in suppliers or something.

Funny enough, I had a BRS heater that I bought in Sept 2021 that failed within a month or two...but I got it replaced under warranty from them and that has been going strong since. I do run two elements though, but once their warranty goes out, I may look into another brand.

 

[Geebs19]

I have the 200w heaters, 2 of them running right now that I bought at the end of last year and have had 0 issues with them.

 

[cocoReefer]

I have a couple of them with their controller....300w i think, but also from over a year ago. They seem to work great

 

[Manny’s Reef]

zero issues with them for over a year now

 

[MorReefs]

I had one brs 600w and had it fail just two nights ago, it was just under 2 years old.

 

[Create New]

Honestly I would never buy something with those reviews.

 

[nudave]

Had 2 of these go in one year. First one lasted 7 months, the replacement 5 months. Now running an Eheim with no problems.

 

[afrokobe]

I went eheim jaggers on both of my tanks. I heard good things about the im heaters, but they a bit pricier

 

[Trommell]

BRS Heaters are manufactured by Schego and just rebranded as BRS. Knowing this you can expand your reviews to see broader viewpoints.

 

[codenfx]

I have 2 300w brs heater running for 8 months now, no issues so far.

 

[TurboTang]

Bought their 300W Ti heater and controller in Aug 2020. Not a single problem - would definitely recommend it

 

[Hairyteeth]

Bought a 600 watt in dec, died in a couple months

 

[ZombieEngineer]

The main problem I have with them is there is no temperature controller built in. I don't want to risk my reef to a single heater controller. I always control my heaters with my apex and set the heaters a couple degrees higher as a failsafe. A few times a year I will verify that the thermal element is still working.

I will stick with eheim. The basic titanium works great and is half the price. A quarter the price if you factor in the heater controller. My eheims have had one failure out of 7 heaters in the span of 8 years.

 

[rtparty]

The 200 and 600w versions have issues that BRS is looking into. The 100 and 300w versions have a very, very low failure rate.

I've got 5 BRS heaters running (all 300 or 100w) and not a single failure in over 2 years.

 

[BZOFIQ]

Honestly I would never buy something with those reviews.

That's why I started this thread. I bought them before the long-term reviews started pouring in.

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[BZOFIQ]

The 200 and 600w versions have issues that BRS is looking into. The 100 and 300w versions have a very, very low failure rate.

Was this confirmed by BRS anywhere???

 

[BZOFIQ]

Had 2 of these go in one year. First one lasted 7 months, the replacement 5 months. Now running an Eheim with no problems.

Do you remember the wattage of the units that went bad on you?