BAH-1000 Failed on me!

I came home from dinner today and found that the temps in my ball's tub had dropped to 75 degrees. I checked the thermostat and found it was dead, no lights, no power.

Even though I had a dimmer hooked up to it so that if it ever did fail it wouldn't spike the temps real high, I guess it didn't fail in the ON position.

I've had this Thermostat for right at about a month and I am very disappointed with its performance. It seemed to have strong swings in temperatures over the past month and would often "click" multiple times on/off in the course of a few minutes.

I now am warming my ball back up using just the dimmer (basically a rheostat) and I'll have to worry about him for the next week until I get the thermostat.

Ugh.

I would go with a herp stat I have several of them and never had any problems

The reptitemp 500r is a cheaper and more reliable thermostat. I personally think the BAH-1000 is garbage.

I've used Helix's for years now. No problems or complaints from me. I just bought another one.

I'd like to pipe in, that I've used Ranco's for several years now, and they have never failed me. You should look into them, Reptile Basics sells them. :)

I use the repitemp 500R with no problems! Holds the right temp all the time! It is cheap too!

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Originally Posted by seeya205

I use the repitemp 500R with no problems! Holds the right temp all the time! It is cheap too!

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I have to ask - why is the reptitemp so much cheaper than the helix & ranco? Is there something it doesn't do that the others do? Just wondering why I spent $110 on a helix, if the reptitemp does the same thing. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Kaoslb

I came home from dinner today and found that the temps in my ball's tub had dropped to 75 degrees. I checked the thermostat and found it was dead, no lights, no power.

Even though I had a dimmer hooked up to it so that if it ever did fail it wouldn't spike the temps real high, I guess it didn't fail in the ON position.

I've had this Thermostat for right at about a month and I am very disappointed with its performance. It seemed to have strong swings in temperatures over the past month and would often "click" multiple times on/off in the course of a few minutes.

I now am warming my ball back up using just the dimmer (basically a rheostat) and I'll have to worry about him for the next week until I get the thermostat.

Ugh.

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It needs a specific line voltage to work so adding a dimmer to it screwed it up.

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Originally Posted by Lolo76

I have to ask - why is the reptitemp so much cheaper than the helix & ranco? Is there something it doesn't do that the others do? Just wondering why I spent $110 on a helix, if the reptitemp does the same thing. :cool:

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The reptitemp has an analog setting -- basically just a dial and you have to take a bit of time to tune it in to where you want the temperatures to be. The more expensive thermostats are digital, you can set them to what you want without the guess work.

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Originally Posted by Darkice

It needs a specific line voltage to work so adding a dimmer to it screwed it up.

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I agree, the dimmer wasnt such a good idea. It's probably what killed it. If you want a back up, use something that turns on and off, like a ranco, not something that "dims" the power.

So per say if you had a helix and a ranco, you would use the ranco as back up, not the helix to back up the ranco.