Pharos Pods

Open questions

Ten questions, no signup

There are decisions still open on this controller, and I would rather settle them with your answers than with my own assumptions. Nothing here asks who you are.

Answer as many as you feel like and skip the rest — a part-filled form is still worth sending. Nothing is for sale on this page and no price here is a Pharos Pods price. There is one optional email field at the bottom if you want to hear when it ships.

1What are you running on your tank today?

2How many systems would it have to cover?

3Which of these do you actually watch?

Not which ones you could name. Which ones you would notice going wrong. Tick as many as apply.

4How much does switching equipment on and off matter to you?

Relays, outlets, a heater cut off before it cooks the tank.

5How much does a permanent screen mean to you?

A display that is always showing, somewhere you actually are, rather than an app you open.

6What is the first thing you would want it to catch?

7Before I say anything: what do you think a controller like this is expected to cost?

Your honest guess, in US dollars. There is no right answer and nothing is being sold.

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For reference A controller that reads temperature and pH and shows them on your phone generally runs $290 to $360 in the United States today. That counts the controller, its power supply and those two probes. Switching equipment on and off is not in that number, and adding it costs another 30 to 100 percent. Five brands, priced off their own pages in September 2026.

8With that in front of you, what would you pay?

Same again, in US dollars. Going lower than the reference is a real answer and I would rather have it than a polite one.

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9What wakes you up at 2am about your tank?

The thing you get up and check. Not the thing you should check.

10What have I got wrong?

Claims that do not hold up, anything that reads like marketing, anything that made you roll your eyes. This is the most useful box on the page.

Optional: an email address

Only if you want it used. Leave it blank and your answers are still counted.

Answers go to the same mailbox as everything else on this site. No account is created and nothing is stored in your browser.

Sent. Thank you — this is the part I cannot do on my own. If you left an address and asked a question in it, you will get a reply.