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Originally posted by Son Of Skyline:
Multiple heaters:
Great safety net if one fails and shuts down
Useless if one fails and stays on[/QB]
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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">this is just the point of having small heaters than cannot keep up by themselves. lets say you need 250 watts to just hold your tank at 82 degrees. now you go and get three 100 watt heaters.. if one of them sticks on it will not be enuf to over heat your tank.. the other two will still cycle on and off.. just not as much as when all three were working.. if two stick on.. big deal you have already determand that a 250 watt will barly get your tank to 82 so 200 will only get it to say....80. your third will still cycle on and off. the problem is that on the other hand if you are using a Tronic (solid state and fails off) the other two won't be able to keep up.. so if that is the case you have to use two heaters that are capable of heating your tank. I had a Tronic fail on me on my angel tank.. (out of the 6 tronics I have that is the only one that has failed.) luckaly I caught it wwhen it was down to 78 and that fish are more forgiving than coral hehe..
Steve