thermostat..multiple enclosures

[sirhissball]

OK, I'm tired of worrying and fiddling with dimmers, so a thermostat is being ordered this week (Matt is going to get tired of me asking ?'s). I was looking at getting one of the Ranco t-stats...everything I have read on them has been positive, and I can afford it. My question; all things being the same, I can control the heat in a bunch of cages with one unit right? As long as I don't go over the max wattage of the unit. This is the perfect excuse to own more snakes!

Also, where should I place the probe? I was thinking under substrate at the bottom of cage (newspaper and a little aspen). I have read hot side hide, but whenever my bp is in there, the temp of the hide changes, and I don't think it would be consistent. Thanks again for all the help; and putting up with newbie ?'s (and for not letting me think about cheap dangerous thermostats

[tigerlily]

You can run multiple heating element (assuming you don't go over the maxiumum wattage) off one thermostat, as long as they are the same exact heating element. For example, you can't run 3" flexwatt and a heat mat on the same thermostat. As for placing the probe... I now have my probe placed directly on the flexwatt, that I have heating my rack. I used to have it beneath the hot side hide though when I used the tank setup.

[TekWarren]

To add to what Christie said, if you are NOT using a rack setup and are still wanting to power more than one device with one tstat...not only do the devices need to be the same size (as she said above) but to be accurate your enclosures need to be the same or as similiar as possible. Say you have a one enclosure bigger than the other...the same size heating element of course is not going to heat them both the same ambient wise.

[justcage]

To add to what Christie said, if you are NOT using a rack setup and are still wanting to power more than one device with one tstat...not only do the devices need to be the same size (as she said above) but to be accurate your enclosures need to be the same or as similiar as possible. Say you have a one enclosure bigger than the other...the same size heating element of course is not going to heat them both the same ambient wise.

Yeah what he said