Rena Smart Heater Warning

[neven]

For those of you who keep your tanks in a drafty area of your home, make sure you watch your heaters indicator light. The Smart heater has a feature where it will stop heating if the tank falls 5 degrees below the heater's set point. This feature is to prevent it from burning itself out, but really becomes a pain if you have a spouse who loves to air out the place constantly.

[big_bubba_B]

good thing you posted that was thinking about getting one but my gf likes to open up the door and windows alot so would be pointless to get one

[gklaw]

That is one "dumb" heater. Some time, I intentional or unintentionally drop the tank temperature during water change. That would mean that I have to play with the dumb heater every time I want to do that.

[Morainy]

That is not a good feature in a heater!

[The Guy]

Wow! what kind of design is that, I would say "not" to smart heater.

[Roberto Luongo]

Are the Hydors the same ?.

[Gregzz4]

My smart heaters never had a problem
Room temp is 68-72 and tank is 79
I ran them for a year without fail before I stripped down the tank
And we smoke with windows open all year, even winter months