Red Sea Max - Temperature fluctuation Issue

[RGS88]

Originally Posted by RipCurl

Hi All,

I am taking a shot in the dark to see if any of you have experienced the same issue I am having.

My tank tends to heat up farily quickly as it is a closed unit. The cooling fans can only be turned on manually. I can either leave them on or turn them off . They do not operate under the timer unlike my lights. It is a ridiculous flaw.

The problem is If I decide to go on vacation for an extended period of time, I do not want to leave the fans running for 24x7 in case they blow and stop working. I fear if it does, my fish will fry.

I have my lights on from 12-8pm everyday. When I come home around 5, the temp reaches 81. If I give it another 3 hours, I have seen it rise to 88. I usually turn on the cooling fans when I get back from work to keep the temperature below 80... I would like to avoid doing this all together.

I would like to start introducing corals to my tank and will need at least another 2 hours of light per day

Does anyone know of a work around for this issue? In a perfect world, the colling fans would activate themselved once the temperature has exceeded what I have set it to....

Tank Type: Red Sea Max250

Thanks for your time.

I agree that the water cooling fans should of been hooked up to the timer. This is a bad design. I can get huge temperature fluctuations in a 24 hour period... anywhere from 76 up to 84. Lucky to this point I haven't lost anything because of temperature fluctuations. I am planning to rewire those back water cooling fans to their own separate circuit and timer so that they can go on and off the same time as the lights.

[Skimmerking]

all you need to do is plug the fans in and where the wire comes out cut it and hook it to its own plug, and there you have it

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by RGS88

I agree that the water cooling fans should of been hooked up to the timer. This is a bad design. I can get huge temperature fluctuations in a 24 hour period... anywhere from 76 up to 84. Lucky to this point I haven't lost anything because of temperature fluctuations. I am planning to rewire those back water cooling fans to their own separate circuit and timer so that they can go on and off the same time as the lights.

As I stated, I don't use the timer, I switch my lights on and off manually, and yes my fan goes on when I stitch the lights on and off when I switch the lights off.

I'm with Mike, it should be fairly easy to rewire the fan into the the timer if that's what you use. I never could figure out the damn timer.. So I'm old school.. Click the lights when I want light and off when I got to bed. Works for me..