Quote Originally Posted by treaux View Post
I set up a friend's BRB enclosure with a Hydrofarm because he didn't want to spend the money on a nicer t-stat. It's been about two months and I went to check on it and the Hydrofarm is not putting out any power to the 100 watt CHE that's plugged into it. It still senses the temp and the light turns on when it's supposed to, but no power going to the plug. I swapped it out for another cheapo t-stat (Inkbird off Amazon) and it worked fine. So two months for a Hydrofarm before failure isn't so great.
Unfortunately thats not a uncommon experience with Hyrdrofarm. [Begin personal story] On a personal note I got one to take a look at. The pcb was a mess. I touched up solder points before i even plugged it in. I messed with it for a bit to test it out. I wasn't impressed. My father needed a thermostat to run a small 600 watt room heater. I figured it would be a good chance to put some miles on it and see how it held up. Two weeks later it no longer was outputting heat and if I remember right was also resetting itself. In the garbage it went. [end personal story]