Help on new AP set up

In the process of setting up an undivided T10 (48x24x15) with the ap flexwatt and single fluorescent lighting. Also have a 40 watt RHP arriving this week. Will run the flex and the RHP with a herpstat 2. Flex probe attached under cage in groove. Questions are:


1. Is it normal to have to set my herpstat around 102 to achieve 90 on cage floor with no substrate?


2. When RHP arrives, should I install it over hot side or center of cage?


3. Where's the best location to place RHP probe?


I do plan on using an inch or so of aspen so I don't want to crank up the flex too much and my floor get too hot in case she burrows. That's why I'm installing the heat panel to help with heat and ambient temps. Room temps are fairly cool year round ranging from 72 summer to 66 winter.


Any helpful suggestion on this set up please.

1. Is it normal to have to set my herpstat around 102 to achieve 90 on cage floor with no substrate?
Yea, thats about right. The substrate over the uth should be thinner than the rest of the cage. 1/4 inch or less.

2. When RHP arrives, should I install it over hot side or center of cage?
Mine are over the warm side but that

3. Where's the best location to place RHP probe?
I mount mine by gluing then into a cable strap and then gluing that to the frame of the rhp. I use Superglue.
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