The evidence in this video leads to some thoughts/questions:
- Where should a temperature probe be placed? At the floor of the tank? At the top of the water? It’s much harder to heat the top of the water, especially with heating under the tank. I know, because I had a snow melting mat AND a Thermal Guardian waterbed heater working for days and the temp was showing 88 deg F. But as soon as I bought an Aquatop submersible heater, it was reading 105 deg F! why? Because the Aquatop probe is heavier and sunk to the bottom of the tank while the Inkbird controller that was controlling the snow mat and TG is super light and was very much near the top of the water.
- The academic realm of The floatosphere requires reproducible results. If a scientific paper makes the statement: “water was heated to 93.5 deg F”, we now know that such a statement is greatly dependent on the height of the temperature probe. If a commercial tank manufacturer is hiding the details about the location of the temperature probe, then a crucial element in the reproducibility of experiments is being obscured.
- It’s easier to get a “warm water read” near the floor of the tank, but if the water heaters are under the tank, then one must take care that one is not reading the heater from the heaters. This can be done by locating the heaters in a different part o the tank perhaps?
