InkbirdDigital Temperature Probe Controller Thermostat Timer AC 110V 1200W Only Heating Plug Time Switch Reptile Breeding Heater Planting Greenhouse No Cooling Control

I have been using these controllers for years and, in my opinion; is one of the best.Especially so if you like high visibility LED display that is visible from across the room versus a dim LCD that many others use.The programing instructions are a bit confusing and could be a little more intuitive.In my opinion; it appears that inkbird has completely missed the boat on a wonderful opportunity to make this controller even more useful and desirable!Question for Inkbird:In consideration of the existing architecture of your board and dual work capabilities; WHY did you NOT simply install the second relay to control a light with the second outlet right along with the daytime/nighttime temperature control?!?The dual plug is already there!This product would be a lot more attractive if it would ALSO turn on the aquarium, cage or terrarium light at the same time it switches to daytime temperature. . .

This is a pain to get set up, but once you do, you'll love it! I use it to change my leopard gecko's tank temperature for a warmer daytime temp and a cooler nighttime temp. Here's what I can tell you:1. If you prefer Fahrenheit (this defaults to Celcius), change that first to make your life easy2. If you don't hold the set button down after you change a setting, it will not save3. If you take too long to enter something in, it will time out and nothing you just changed will be saved.4. Write out the settings you want on paper first, in the order they appear in the settings menu, then you can just plug them in one after another, hold down "Set" and you're good to go! The picture is of my sequence, which I did at 7:36pm, to set the controller to 90F from 8am-9pm and 72F from 9pm until 8am.I still check the thermometer I have in his terrarium periodically, just to make sure I don't have a fried or frozen lizard, but so far, it's extremely accurate and consistent. I've been using it about 3 weeks. It's so much better for your reptiles' health to have a consistent schedule! This is a great value.

I bought this product to use as a thermostat for an infrared heating lamp. It was going to get four stars from me, because there are things about this product which are fantastic. It takes temperature accurately, you can customize everything from the temperature differential to calibration and beyond, and the screen is nice and big. Since I’m obviously not writing a positive review for this anymore, let me go through why that is.first, and most importantly, the button I press and hold to bring up the programming menu no longer does a thing. What that means in concrete terms is that absolutely nothing can be changed. I can’t adjust the temperature, I can’t change the temperature differential, I can’t set the time if I want to use the dual temp setting, The thermostat has now become utterly useless. This happened after losing power. The terrible user guide, which I’ll be getting into next, claims that there is a capacitor which will Provide enough power for the thermostat to remember all of the settings for approximately 12 hours of outage. Since plugging and unplugging the pointless brick of plastic I apparently spend my money on doesn’t make the programming button work again I suppose there must be a capacitor in there; but it didn’t maintain any of my settings for me.That user guide, before it only would’ve lost this product a star and is not currently anywhere near being my main complaint, but it’s still worth mentioning anyway. It is difficult to comprehend because it reads like a bad translation of something written by a person who probably has never seen the product in their life. It is interpretable though, but doesn’t provide any means of troubleshooting potential issues with the product.

Its a great inexpensive thermostat perfect for general use. The accuracy is pretty good but being that its an on/off function rather than dimming its not perfect. I keep reptiles, plants and fish, this works great for simple setups perfect for people who are just starting and need something cheap. The user interface and instructions are complete garbage though. Taking some time to watch youtube videos will ensure success. If you can, I would recamend trying to find the version of this with the plastic probe rather than the metal one. The metal one reads more accurate in general but its susceptible to corrosion.

These are so much more reliable than the thermostats inside of aquarium heaters. After having several heater thermostats fail, I cannot recommend this product enough

I needed a versatile thermostat for a refrigerator and when I bought this the description wasn't clear. This is only for heating. I lost food over this mistake. 😨

I needed this on the boat to power a small 500watt heater to keep the Diesel engine warm. Don’t use house type heaters on gasoline engines. I tested it in the freezer to confirm it switched on then put it in the boat. The setup was a little difficult because one of the segments in the LED display was bad. I would have returned it but it was going to get down to 12 degrees. I guess I just got a bad display but other than that it works great. Like that the outlet is on the end of a cord and that it has a long temp probe. I hang the unit where I can see it and put the probe by the engine.

The programming instructions are written for those without an IT background. I was able to get them working quite easily. Use them to control a couple of heating pads for my jumping spiders (the temperature probe measures the temperature and turn the heating pads on and off as needed. It's nice because I have them set up to provide a daytime temperature and a lower night time temperature. Very happy with my purchase. Highly recommended!

I have been using this thermostat with 2 heat lamps to keep my pet hedgehog warm for almost 5 months now. It's been very reliable and gives me peace of mind to know that my pet will be warm enough, but not overheat.The instruction manual was decent, and I was able to google a video tutorial on how to set it up (just to be sure I understood all the functions correctly).It did take a bit of experimenting to calibrate it with my digital thermometer, and to figure out where to place the thermostat probe for the best results. The main issue was that the probe takes a bit of time to pick up on changes in temperature - slower than my digital thermometer anyways, which will check temperatures every 10 seconds.The other downside is that the display is permanently on and bright red (see last photo). It's great for checking the status at night, but bad for nocturnal animals like hedgehogs. I wound up hanging the thermometer from under the table where my hedgehog enclosure sits. That way, she isn't affected by the glow of the display when she's up at night.For my purposes, I was aiming for a range between 24°C-26°C in my hedgehog's enclosure. I now set my thermostat's ideal temperature to 25.5°C (with the probe in the middle between the two heat sources), and for the lamps to turn on when it drops past 0.1°C of my desired temperature. That way, the far corners of the enclosure never drop below 24°C (which I monitor with a separate digital thermometer).Once I figured out the optimal set-up for the thermostat and probe, it's been great! Another plus is that the device remembers its previous settings after it's been unplugged or after power outages, so you don't have to worry about redoing everything.

Works well. Not hard to set up if you use YouTube. Instructions might as well be in Swahili. Just hopeless. The product works well once you get it up and running.

love the controller, but unless your a Harvard grad in electronics, you'll have to go onto you tube to find out how to program it. the instructions that come with it are totally unless. they make no sense to the average 70+ year old person. I had my son look at the instructions and he couldn't figure them out either. NOT CLEAR AT ALL. other than that, it works exactly like i want it to work

This is my second unit as the first one failed in a few days..this was used 2hrs a day all spring summer and fall in a Greenhouse for heating and cooling--and worked flawlessly..Now use it in the house for heating and will be moving to the greenhouse soon. A little difficult to understand the setting up of it at first until you wrap your head around the 2 letter function codes. I like this unit a lot!

Easiest one I have used in the 40+ years of keeping reptiles