Titanium heater question.

[troyclark]

Hello all, I was just surfing Ebay and saw this auction for a submersible titanium heater made by Catalina Aquarium. I think this is the item number.

7715679095

Has anyone used this brand of heater ?? I am getting really tired of my expensive Won Bros. heater crapping out. They are absolute junk in my opinion. Therefore I am looking for a good reliable heater to heat my 100 gallon water storage tanks as well as my 300 gallon vertical water storage tank. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wouldn't mind paying more for a better quality heater as long as I can get more than 6 months out of it. Thanks in advance.

[cowboy steve]

Hello all, I was just surfing Ebay and saw this auction for a submersible titanium heater made by Catalina Aquarium. I think this is the item number.

7715679095

Has anyone used this brand of heater ?? I am getting really tired of my expensive Won Bros. heater crapping out. They are absolute junk in my opinion. Therefore I am looking for a good reliable heater to heat my 100 gallon water storage tanks as well as my 300 gallon vertical water storage tank. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I wouldn't mind paying more for a better quality heater as long as I can get more than 6 months out of it. Thanks in advance.

What kind of problem, thermostat, shattering, etc...?

[jaydoc]

Troy,
I kept having the same problem with won brothers heaters burning out after 6 months. Finally got some really good high watt titaniums from Jehmco. They have really good 500 and 1000 watt heaters. They are not labeled with a brand name on the website and I don't remember what brand they were. They are alittle more expensive and they require a temperature controller because there is no thermostat built into the heater itself. I have had my current set for well over a year without a single problem. The guy at Jehmco is really helpful as well.

[cowboy steve]

Troy,
I kept having the same problem with won brothers heaters burning out after 6 months. Finally got some really good high watt titaniums from Jehmco. They have really good 500 and 1000 watt heaters. They are not labeled with a brand name on the website and I don't remember what brand they were. They are alittle more expensive and they require a temperature controller because there is no thermostat built into the heater itself. I have had my current set for well over a year without a single problem. The guy at Jehmco is really helpful as well.

I myself use Jehmco temperature controllers, to control multiple heaters within one system.

I have noticed that in the majority of the heaters I have owned, of all differant manufactures, the thermostat setting bore little or no relation to the actual running temperature of the water.

Couple that with all the horror stories of catastrophic heater failure, I decided it would be wise to simply bypass what seems to be the major flaw with all heaters, their thermostat.

Jehmco is great to do busisness with, and they have everything.

[jeep]

Troy, My Via Aqua stainless steel heaters seem to be working great. Much cheaper than the crap Won sells too...

[ppv1951]

i've seen a lotta posts about the won heaters being junk. seems there's an inline fuse that goes bad. you can re-wire it and bypass it, but why buy junk to begin with? a lotta people are reporting good results with the visatherms and if there's a problem they replace it free, not like $10, plus shipping on the others.

pat.