This morning when I woke up, I had notifications the alarm is on. I checked the apex fusion app is on due to temp below my selected range. The temp was down to 74.2 when I woke up, Look like somewhere before 3am my heater took a crap and dropped below my low temp alarm value of 75 degrees. Thankfully I had extra heaters sitting around, so I popped one into place asap and got it rolling.
I had just yanked my inkbird off of the system because I was getting readings from my apex that the temp was getting high at 80 degrees and the inkbird display was only reading 77. I'm not sure why I was getting such a difference of reading when one of the sensors was in the same chamber of the sump and as the apex probe.
What are the best recommendations for apex probe location?? I always feel like the tank is cooler than the sump. I was thinking of putting it in the overflow box just to get it a little more accurate.
I'm thinking for redundacy of allocating another outlet to a 2nd heater....but hate to waste one on just that. Maybe hook 2 up, off of the one outlet, by using the inkbird and just make teh ranges on it really wide so I don't get alarms from it and only from the apex, since the inkbird temp sensor doesn't seem to be accurate.
I'm open to the wisdom of the Aquarist elders that have thought through this whole process with redundacies for failure.
Thank you!!