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New Rack... FINALLY
All 300 or so pounds of it. Yay.
First being built:
Spacing used:
Third Shelf:
Heating being installed and parallel wired:
Parallel wiring warm side flexwatt:
Fully set up with snakes and heat:
The rack is heated by using 2ft strips of 11" flexwatt for the cool sides and a 1ft strip of 11' flexwatt for the warm side. It is controlled by a Herpstat 2, and by god, I haven't gotten shocked yet!  Guess I wired everything ok being a girl and all.
Thanks for looking!
--Becky--
?.? Normals, 1.0 100% Het Pied Classic Jungle, 1.0 Yellow Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Butterscotch Hypo, 0.1 100% Het VPI Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Yellow Hypo, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Yellowbellies, 0.1 YB Granite, 1.0 Black Pastel, 1.0 Lemon Pastel, 0.1 50% Possible Het Banded Albino, 0.1 Spider, 1.0 Fire, 0.2 Granite
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
"Guess I wired everything ok being a girl and all"=
Awesome rack Becky 
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
Awesome Becky! Congrats. How hard was it to wire the flexwatt? I just have nightmares of burning my house down, if I even thought of attempting it.
How long did it take you?
Christie 
Reptile Geek
Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
It took... *sigh* around a month. It shouldn't have, but my crappy $3 soldering iron couldn't get hot enough to even melt solder(and THAT'S sad, as it has a very low melting point...). So I found my dad's heavy duty one and zipped through it all.
It's really not hard parallel wiring, you just have to think through it and make sure you connect the correct wires, LoL. It all heated up just fine, and the house is still standing, so... I guess it's ok!
--Becky--
?.? Normals, 1.0 100% Het Pied Classic Jungle, 1.0 Yellow Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Butterscotch Hypo, 0.1 100% Het VPI Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Yellow Hypo, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Yellowbellies, 0.1 YB Granite, 1.0 Black Pastel, 1.0 Lemon Pastel, 0.1 50% Possible Het Banded Albino, 0.1 Spider, 1.0 Fire, 0.2 Granite
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
Hey, it's still way better than I could do. I'm very impressed. It looks wonderful. 
Christie
Reptile Geek
Cause when push comes to shove you taste what you're made of
You might bend, till you break cause its all you can take
On your knees you look up decide you've had enough
You get mad you get strong wipe your hands shake it off
Then you Stand
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
 Originally Posted by tigerlily
it's still way better than I could do.
Don't sell yourself short..you could totally pull it off
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
Very nice!  You're not kidding about that melamine weighing a ton, but at least you'll know that your snakes will be snug as a bug in a rug with all the work you put into that bad boy. Great job!
-Lawrence
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
I hope that little girl coming from you Lawrence will enjoy the baby rack. I need to get building on it soon so she can come home! Thank god for metal clips...No more soldering! *chants* Down with soldering!
Anyway! Thanks for the compliments, I am very proud of that thing, the behemoth that it is.
--Becky--
?.? Normals, 1.0 100% Het Pied Classic Jungle, 1.0 Yellow Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Butterscotch Hypo, 0.1 100% Het VPI Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Yellow Hypo, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Yellowbellies, 0.1 YB Granite, 1.0 Black Pastel, 1.0 Lemon Pastel, 0.1 50% Possible Het Banded Albino, 0.1 Spider, 1.0 Fire, 0.2 Granite
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
Now it's time to fill it up
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Re: New Rack... FINALLY
Yes well, I'll have one space left after Sullivan comes home. But then there's the baby rack! I have tons of room to fill that puppy up
--Becky--
?.? Normals, 1.0 100% Het Pied Classic Jungle, 1.0 Yellow Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Butterscotch Hypo, 0.1 100% Het VPI Hypo, 0.1 100% Het Yellow Hypo, 1.0 Enchi, 1.1 Yellowbellies, 0.1 YB Granite, 1.0 Black Pastel, 1.0 Lemon Pastel, 0.1 50% Possible Het Banded Albino, 0.1 Spider, 1.0 Fire, 0.2 Granite
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