Inline heaters

Hi all, hope every one is having a fushy day!

Does anyone know if inline heaters are available in SA. Has anyone ever us3d them succesfully?

Soemthing like this:

https://www.amazon.com/Hydor-Line-E...er/dp/B0002Z7VQE#immersive-view_1560002839533


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@David Kusner ,

I know @top dog has experience and uses them.
I have tagged him in, Im sure he will soon chime in

 

sorry for the late reply was stuck up in africa with no internet
I make up my own, got the idea from ones used on koi ponds but did not like the idea of pvc and heat so used stainless steel tubing and ceramic elements that stays dry in a inner tube. Use a thermostat to control temperature
works great have a 3kw one for a 8 foot tank standing in a workshop and a 2kw one working on my new ray tank.
have not experience with ones off the shelf unfortunately.

 

Hmmm good Idea, I didn't think of a DIY one and I should have, I am all for DIY first.
"If at first you don't succeed, try again and then if it still fails give-up and support China!"
I have a couple of ideas in mind I am going to try out. I want to get as much of the clutter out of my 400L as possible, its starting to look like a large science experiment at the moment.

 

not planning on doing any builds for a long time
on the thread "new ray tank"
https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/new-ray-tank.32059/page-4
there is a drawing but let me know if you want any further details

 

got the element from alstom electrical elements in driehoek germiston
there is 1 inlet 1.5inch and 2 outlets 3/4inch, the tank has 2 filter return inlet holes drilled in bottom of overflow decided was easier to reduce size of piping and split flow on the heater than trying to build additional manifold as space was tight.
pump is rated for 18000ltr so having to outlets also helped with the flow
hope that makes sense

 

in my case yes for the following reasons:

• always put my heaters on a thermostat as safety precaution so thermostat was fixed cost
• like to 1watt per litre so would have need 7 300watt heaters at R700 for eheim jagger (only heaters i really trust)
• used scrap tube i had lying around so material where free
• used it as a training exercise for lightie at my workshop so labor was free

 

That's a large volume of water to keep heated! I have also heard that even the eheim jagger although one of the better heaters compared to Ching chong Cha heaters is not as good as they used to be back in the day and dont seem to last as long as the original ones.

 

Hmmmm actually nothing wrong with eheim .. my observation - our grid power causes more damage to them than what one would expect, this has reduced working life of things like thermostat switchs etc - this might even be by design. Hence I now run external temperature probes and electronic switch gear.

Hydor was imported to SA maybe 3 years plus ago - not sure if this is still the case. https://www.tropicalaquarium.co.za/threads/in-line-aquarium-heaters.23863/

So yes you might find some stock on some shelves.



Later Ferdie

 

I am doing the same now and I found one in particular that is cheap but works very well and I am getting persistance constant temps with them and the beauty is you can easily adjust the temperature settings in seconds.

 

Yeah - very cool ...

 

Lantis has some STC1000 for you ... becoming hard to find with all the craft brewing going on .. https://lantis.co.za/ocols/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=1527

OH wait ETA 30 days ...

 

https://www.botshop.co.za/product/w1209-temperature-controller/

has 20 instock w1209's arrrg that is 12volt input ...

http://underground.co.za/search/?search=W1209

Later Ferdie