Herpstat trouble shooted. Tested and succeeded. Safe to put back in?

This all started when i saw my heat pad was at 118 degrees. Assumed it was the pad so bought a new one. Same thing happened. Now it's all eyes on the herpstat. I contacted spyder robotics and did what they said. It passed the trouble shooting process. Did everything the person said it should do. So does this mean it's safe to plug the heat pad back in?

oh great..
I just ordered a Herpstat 2 today.

Never used them before.

Hope yours works now. ..

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Originally Posted by zina10

oh great..
I just ordered a Herpstat 2 today.

Never used them before.

Hope yours works now. ..

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You'll be fine, I was just part of the unlucky club. I mean I do want to plug it in, but he's in his hot hide. So if it's still defective than he can suffer from a burn. I don't want to take any chances. For now I just have his oil heater set to 85 degrees. His tub is nice and warm.

I plan on plugging my incubator AND my Rack that contains all my 6 year old beloved BP's into that Herpstat.

If I had a failure like this, it would be devastating.

I know it can happen with "any" thermostat, but to read this a few hours after I ordered one is a bit concerning. Now I wonder if I shouldn't have rather ordered 2 separate ones rather then one that runs 2 setups..

Update. Plugged in the herpstat. Set it to 90 and was staying at 78 without going up. I chose to master reset it. It seems like it's heating up now.

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Originally Posted by zina10

I plan on plugging my incubator AND my Rack that contains all my 6 year old beloved BP's into that Herpstat.

If I had a failure like this, it would be devastating.

I know it can happen with "any" thermostat, but to read this a few hours after I ordered one is a bit concerning. Now I wonder if I shouldn't have rather ordered 2 separate ones rather then one that runs 2 setups..

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That's a deal breaker than. The thing is though I bought mine used. However the seller stated it was only used for a week. Oh well.

So I just put in my configurations. It was heating to the default settings but now it seems like it's not heating to my configurations. Oh no.

I believe I found the solution. I was tweaking the settings. After disabling the "On Error Shutoff IO" it started to heat up. Now it's at 90. I'll be checking every 10 minutes with my infrared tempgun to make sure it's in safe ranges.

Oh boy :(

Has anyone else used Herpstat 2 ? Ever any issues ?

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't just go to the "double Ranco" method that Boaphiles recommends (and sells).

I was really happy about ordering a Herpstat because they get good reviews, but I'm second guessing getting one thermostat to run everything. If it fails..then everything goes down ..:(

Does yours have a warning signal ? Did it go off ?? Did something shut down before getting to hot ?? I thought they had safety measures built in..

I've got 4 Herpstats. 1 Herpstat 2 redline, 1 Herpstat 2 normal, 1 Herpstat 1 redline and 1 herpstat 1 normal and mine have been fine for over 4 years now. If they fail, they fail in the off position and/or you can set the safeties.

As for the OP, did you make sure the Hi/Low temp levels were set to your settings? If you got this used, as you found out, you need to hit the master reset to reset everything to default. Then go through each menu and set everything to YOUR settings.

Setting it to 90 and then it not going over 78 sounds like the pervious owner had the IO set to max at 78 which would explain why it wouldn't heat over 90 until you raised the Hi temp level to 90 or what I do, is 10F over what I want for a max level.