Temperature Probe failure on ReefKeeper 2?

[fluidimagery]

I came home tonight to find the lights off on my tank. Check the RK2 and see the temp reading at 94.2. Quickly feel the tank and the water is cold... that's right cold. The temp probe somehow started spiking so the heater wasn't turning on and the temp dropped down to 70 in the tank. Has this happened to anyone else?

I ordered a new temp probe tonight and have the heater running on it's own thermostat for the time being. Probe is about 1.5 yrs old. It just seems like such a basic thing with all the other technology in the tank to fail. Good thing I wasn't on vacation.

 

[inkblue]

:wow: thanks for the headS up. gotta watch mine carefully...

 

[Bob 1000]

Okay now I'm going to have to put a years, hours, minutes timer on my signature or thing under my post... Thanks for the heads up... It's only been 2 months since I've had my rk2... Maybe House of fish can let us know about the probes... They sold me mines and I love it...

 

[autoponicz]

yea im gonna keep mine in check too.....recently my titanium heater died....good thing it wasnt so cold like these last few days....

 

[Dace]

yes that hppened to me. those probes suck. i alway keep an extra one handy and put another temp device in tank just incase

 

[Jaws]

I had the same problem too. It last about a year. Watch out guys.

 

[Wes]

mines been going about 18 months no probs. This might be a silly question, but you made sure it's not touching a heater or pump?

 

[fluidimagery]

I had the temp probe tie wrapped around the PH probe which is how it's been since I started the tank. I seperated the temp probe just to see and tried cleaning off the probe side and cleaning the contacts on the other side. Still no good, even at 95 degrees it'll keep fluctuating all over the place. It'll go from 95 to 92 then 93.5 then 91 yadda yadda... all over the place.

 

[Wes]

wow thats scary