The EHEIM Thermocontrol+ e appears to be a new Wifi Heater with new innovative features but which hasn’t yet been announced by the German company. Following the article about their newClimacontrol+ WiFi受控冷却器我们在其着陆页中窥探了一个有趣的图形,以大力投入数字。
Among their new line of digitally enhanced products like the Professionel 5e canister filter, AutoFeeder+, and LEDControl+ is just a small inset with some tantalizing details clearly showing something we’ve never seen before. The image shows anebo-jagerEheim heater with the words ‘aquarium-e-heater’ and a wifi icon next to the EHEIM logo and bolstering our suspicion the head of the heater is completely devoid of any kind of dial for adjusting temperature.
In place of the usual control dial there is only a single big red button and we can faintly make out what appears to be a pair of status LEDs to communicate the current state of the heater like we would expect when trying to establish a wireless local area network or WLAN. There doesn’t appear to be any mention of the EHEIM Thermocontrol+ e specifically, but a cursory search revealed a nearly identical model under the Top Fin brand which explicitly states ‘Engineered by EHEIM’ on the box and the heater itself.
For aquarists outside of North America Top Fin is a brand owned by United Pet Group and sold exclusively at Petsmart consisting mostly of private labeled products by other well known aquarium brands. While we don’t have any specific from Eheim themselves we can see the顶级标签版本priced at $69 for the 150 watt version, $79 for the 200 watt version and $89 for the 300 watt version which seems like a reasonable premium over their classic counterparts.
看来,顶级WiFi加热器已经使用了几个月了,不幸的是,对于Eheim和Top Fin,评论普遍严厉,主要是几乎没有无线功能,我们已经对淹没时已经持怀疑态度了。“不要购买”,“昂贵的垃圾”,“噩梦安装”和另一个帽子上的另一个“不要购买”只是评论的一些头条新闻,平均得分为1.6分(满分1.6)。
我们纯粹是在猜测,但怀疑Eheim可能已经降低了顶级鳍品牌的性能和/或正在使用专用标签的单元进行beta测试并熨除错误。如果顶级鳍上的人与德国wifi加热器相同,那么听起来像Eheim Thermocontrol+ E加热器可能会有一个陡峭的山丘爬升,以成为可接受的水族馆加热器,因此我们大多数人可能会暂时坚持使用模拟版本。