Inkbird ITC-308 Digital Temperature Controller Outlet Thermostat 2-Stage 1100W with Sensor Reptile Beer Brewing Kegs Fridge Cured Meat Breeding Growing

I am very pleased with the performance of this Digital Temperature Controller. In fact I bought two of them. I have used it to control the temperature of Kombucha, Spirulina, and several other items. It can control 1200 watts at 110 Volts. That means you can plug a standard chest freezer or refrigerator into the device and control its temperature to be something other than normal appliance operating temps. I have also used this to sound an alarm when cooking temperatures get to a specific number. Works great when trying to optimize Sulforaphane in broccoli! After you get used to setting the unit, it becomes easy to do. Just hold the set button for 3 seconds to get into the programming mode. Then scroll through the options. When done, hold the set button for another 3 seconds to lock in the program. No need to scroll through all the options. The main function you might use would be the TS which is Temperature set value. HD and CD which is how many degrees difference you want to allow between the set value and the actual value. (Usually only a degree or two) You will also want to set AH and AL which will activate an alarm if your temperature gets too high or low. There is a helpful indicator light that will show you if the unit is in heating or cooling mode. When in heating mode the unit will apply current to the 120 V “heat connector”. When in cooling mode the “Cooling” connector will be energized. The connectors are standard 120 V receptacles. My experience is, this unit is very reliable and keeps the temperature of your project very close to the temperature you set. I would not hesitate to buy it again or recommend it to a friend. In fact, I did recommend it to a friend. He wanted an alarm to sound when his deep freezer fails to keep his frozen items at the desired temperature! Works great for him, he loves it too! I have no conflict of interest in writing this review. I am just a happy customer and I am happy to report that I was able to resolve a minor issue with the seller and found them to be very supportive and professional.

These units work very well and are very easy to setup to your needs. I use 4 units in different locations. One unit controls 3 small greenhouses heating sys by plugging in a quad receptacle to the heating outlet on the unit. and then running extension cords to the different greenhouses. the temp sensor has a nice log lead so you can locate the sensor easily wherever you need it. Only consideration is you must resist the temptation to "over" amp the draw on the unit. Still 1050 watts gives you a lot of output from the unit. It is the goto unit to control heating units, or cooling fans. very dependable and very well made. Inkbird is a solid build! I have 9 other Inkbird controllers of different types controlling different type units. Only unit failure was a direct lightning strike!

After having done some careful research, I bought two of these devices here on Amazon for use in controlling the heaters in a smallish insulated outdoor building (an Amish barn style shed used as a workshop). They both work great in the intended application, and, best of all, setup is easy, straightforward and quick; you only need to spend about two minutes reading the instruction manual before becoming a pro in configuring the various settings that you might wish to tinker with. And now, a few notes about the device, some of which are in response to comments made here by other reviewers: Setup of the device is easy once you have spent two minutes reading the instructions. However, as is true of the vast majority of instruction/user manuals that accompany devices such as this that are made in China, the printed instruction/user manual provided with the device is nearly useless, due to the fact that it is so small in size and consequently the print font is very tiny and difficult to read. So, I did not even bother to try deciphering the nearly-impossible to read user manual that came with the device, and rather, I went online and found the InkBird website, at http://ink-bird.com, and then quickly located the downloadable manual for this device in PDF file format, at http://ink-bird.com/asset/file/ITC-308%20V2.1%20EN.pdf , downloaded it, and printed the three most important pages to me out of the six pages in the manual. The cord on the remote temperature sensor is a bit over 6 feet long; I provide this information because others have asked about the length of the cord on the temperature probe. Although one or two other reviewers have stated that they feel that the temperature display of this device reads about 1 degree C too high (compared to reliable & accurate thermometers), this has not been my experience. I have found the temperature calibration of this device to be very accurate; it is totally in agreement with my other digital thermometers. Please be aware that while the ambient temperature display shows temperature in 0.1 degree (F or C) increments, as does the Set/Target Temperature display, the Set (i.e., target) temperature can only be set in one degree integer increments. So, you can select a Set temperature of 90.0 degrees, or 91.0 degrees, but you cannot select a Set temperature of 90.4 degrees. These units work great, the displays and thermostatic function are very accurate, and the units are very reliable. I would buy more for other applications in a second if any such need arose.

This temperature controller is a very easy way to control the climate in an area you cannot always be around to control manually. One merely has to program the minimum and maximum temperature that is suitable. There are two electrical outlets labeled heating and cooling, and this is where you plug in the power for your heating and cooling systems, respectively. So for example, you could plug in a space heater and a AC unit, and when the temp gets too low, the heater is turned on automatically. When the temp gets too high, the AC unit is turned on automatically. When the temp reaches the programmed ideal, both units are powered off. There is a separate temperature probe which can be placed roughly 6-7 feet away from the unit, to more accurately measure the temperature. The unit has two screens, which will display different information, according to what you are doing, programming or simply checking the monitor. In most cases, one of the screens will display the current temperature, and the target temperature. There are also round LEDs which indicate at a glance whether the unit is in heating or cooling mode. From the day the unit arrived, it was worked perfectly, without a hitch. For an indoor hydroponic garden, temperature is important, and one can rest easy relying on this unit to control the temperature. PROS: + Separate temperature probe for added accuracy + Easy to program + Easy to read main screens from a distance + Labelled outlets for the cooling system and the heating system + Wall mountable with a screw (not included) + Sturdy construction + Programming documentation included CONS: - Probe cable is only about 6-7 feet in length.

Very clever device that will turn on a heater below one temperature and turn on a cooler above another temperature. You can vary the amount of overshoot or undershoot, the time delay before a cooling appliance will be switched on (to protect the compressor), the alarm point for wide excursions from the set temperature, and, of course, the set temperatures (C or F) for heating and/or cooling. You don't have to use both heating and cooling. For example, if the ambient temperature is always higher than the desired temperature, you don't have to add a heater. This would be the case if you are using a refrigerator for a wine cooler, for example. Similarly, you wouldn't need to add a cooling appliance if you only needed to keep something warmer than ambient temperature, such as seed sprouting or terrariums, for example. The temperature probe is small and on a fairly thin insulated wire (about the thickness of a cell phone charging cable). I mention this because you will need to stick that probe where the temperature is being controlled, such as through the gasket of a refrigerator or in a terrarium. My only complaint is the Sino-English instructions and the odd shorthand used in the display setup for each feature. It took a while to figure it all out, but once I did, it's really a very nice and versatile unit. I may get another.

update 1: worked great last night. update 2: found a work around to the warm wires (sort of). if im no where near my desired temperature, in the future i will just directly plug the a/c in to an outlet and then plug into the controller later. now that its cold in here it is doing an excellent job going on and off and my ac only runs 10 minutes every 20 minutes during the night and morning. update 3: i think my "T" shows up as an "E" but missing the top part of the E, small glitch. knowing how electronics work though, a small glitch can turn into a big one later. still love this product and as long as it keeps working my review will remain 5 stars. my camper AC is jimmy rigged to plug into an outlet. it sometimes freezes up in the early humid tampa mornings. i had it on a on/off timer but the timer just gave out after only 2 months. just got this thing programmed and running. after a hour of running ive noticed one thing. the power cord is getting warmer. going to check it a few more times before bed but im really hoping it can handle it. the issue is, the device has a cord going out to receive power from an outlet, and another cord going out to plug your heating/cooling device in. so the current has to go through the device. my suggestion to the manufacture would be to go a gauge (thickness) up in their cords and solve this potential issue/hazard. also making it one cord coming out that has the receptacles and the plug all on one cord would reduce a lot of resistance. i would gladly pay extra for more heavy duty cords. i am very excited to plug a tiny space heater into it this coming winter and have a temperature controlled environment. here in FL its normal to use an air conditioner and a heater all in one day. We only get about a month or 2 of tolerable temps where no a/c is needed. im really hoping to keep it around 70F in my camper 24/7. wish me luck! on top of thicker gauges for the electrical cords i would like an option to have the controller go past the desired temperature by a certain amount. so say you select 77 as desired and 67 as shut off. it will turn on at 77 and off at 67, or opposite if youre heating. that would be really cool for my application. i do have it set for 10 minute breaks before off to on, which technically does the same thing. so no stars reduced! 10 minutes is the max amount of minutes you can set for breaks between on/off, which i think should be changed to 60. 10 is just barely enough in my opinion. strange they would make 10 max, youd think the more control they give the consumer the more useful the product would be.

I am sure there are many uses for this awesome little product. We have 2 applications. I use it for home brewing, and my wife uses it for gardening. HOMEBREWING: I have a chest freezer that I've turned into a fermentation chamber. This is the best temp controller I've ever used (OK, I've only used 2 others). This controller runs the freezer on the "cool" side of the outlet and a mini space heater i have in there on the "heat" side of the outlet. I have found that it is able to keep the temp (either ambient or liquid) within .5 degrees. The settings are simple and only took about 2 minutes to set up. There's not a big power draw from this when it's not sending power to the devices. GARDENING: the wife has a greenhouse and has one of these set up inside to power her ventilation fans. She is currently only using the "cool" side of the device, but it seems to work perfectly. this unit is mounted inside the green house, so while it does not get rained on there is considerable moisture in side and hers has not failed because of that

I just received my Inkbird Itc-308 Digital Temperature Controller Outlet Thermostat and am already delighted! After my Vonshef water oven and my Gourmia immersion circulator pod started getting flaky, I bought the Inkbird ITC-308 and paired it with the Hamilton Beach 33155 5-Quart Portable Slow Cooker I had in the pantry as the sous vide rig. In my initial setup and test I find that the Inkbird works properly. I read enough of the PDF instructions to familiarize myself with the configuration operation and find this unit really easy to setup, referring to the straight-forward parameter chart with each step. I pressed the 'set' key for 3 seconds to enter the config menu, pressing the 'set' button to step through the parameters, adjusting each as needed using the 'up' & 'down' arrow keys. To save settings when I was satisfied I again pressed the 'set' key for 3 seconds, until the current and set temperatures were displayed. Done! I began with a setting of 140 degrees F (my most common sous vide cooking temp) on the Inkbird, and the crock set to high heat. I plugged in the crock pot to the 'Heat' receptacle of the Inkbird PID. The temp probe fit nicely through the vent hole in the lid of the crock (see photo). As soon as the crock pot reached 140, the heat light turned off and power to the crock was removed. The crock overshot by a degree and the cool indicator illuminated, so I turned down the crock to its Keep Warm setting and continued to monitor. I found that the crock now stays between 139 and 141 (see photo). This $38 Inkbird PID seems to do exactly what the $99 Dorkfood controller was intended to do, for a fraction of the price, and so far does so adequately and reliably for my purposes.

I've been on the hunt for a simple IFTTT controllable 10A outlet with a built-in temperature sensor, that is able to send threshold alarms and enable / disable the outlet. I have not found a solution for anywhere near the price of this unit. Simple and easy to use, take a look on YouTube for a video example: it will take you 2-3 minutes to set this up to do whatever it is you need. In my case, I built a highly insulated shed that needs a 500W heater turned on 1-4 times per day (based on the outdoor temperature / overall heatloss!) for 1 hour to keep the contents above 8°C. This little unit works perfectly! The unit did need temperature calibration out of the box, it was reading exactly 1.0°C high, but the unit allows easy compensation to read accurately. The thermocouple does have quite a bit of thermal mass bonded to it, in my use case that's fine: I want the mass of the sensor to lag the actual air temperature by a few seconds / minutes to help average out the indoor space temp. Overall 10/10: perfect little heating controller for light loads; I would not personally run a heating load all the way up to 10A on this unit, it just doesn't have the mass to support such a claim. I'm sure it can _technically_ do 10A for short periods, but to prevent any risks or issues, I'd absolutely keep the load under 6-7A resistive loads max. If you're trying to run a (not remotely rated for!) 120VAC 1.5kW heater on this thing: you're going to melt it for sure.

Excelente producto. Es facil de programar y hace del cuidado de mi serpiente mucho más fácil y práctico. Consideraré comprar el de humedad.

PARA CONTROLAR TEMPERATUEA EM UMA CAMERA DE CURA EXCELENTE

I ordered 2 of the Inkbird controllers to use on my reef aquariums. The controllers are solidly built. The controllers are easy to set up, with many options available. You have the option to set a maximum and minimum temperature which safeguards your aquariums from temps dropping below or going above acceptable limits. There is also an option for using this model with a chiller for those in very hot climates. It has two plugs, one for a chiller and one for a heater which is perfect for environments where both are required. The product has an alarm to signal you that the temperature within your aquarium has either dropped or risen above your set limits. This alarm works very well, I have had mine go off during a waterchange when my probe has come out of water and exposed to ambient temperature. The controller has kept both aquarium temperatures stable and accurate. My only complaint regarding the unit is that the probe is stainless steel rather than coated in a material that definitely will not rust with water exposure. Neither of my units have had their probes rust as of yet. I highly recommend this item and the price can't be beat!

Lo uso para regular la temperatura de mi acuario y funciona muy bien lo tengo desde mas de 1 año y sin fallas