Heat tape and controller help for my snakes
I don't know if this is the right thread for this but I have a situation with heating and need advice. I have built a rack for my snakes which I will fill eventually however it is 11 shelves. 2 for shoe box size, 3 for 15qt, 3 for 28qt, and 3 for 56qt. Right now I have a zoomed controller which I do want to not use because I heard bad things after I bought it. The rack I can't snake the heat tape. I have to use 11 different heat tape power supplies. Could I just use a power strip for all? Also how many controllers do I need? The heat tape won't be past 270 watts. I made the rack 3ft by 2ft if that helps.
Re: Heat tape and controller help for my snakes
with 11 shelves I think you are going to encounter differing temps across them - if your thermostat can cope with the wattage of all the heatmats you might get away with one power strip connected to it but you might need to include in line lamp dimmers for some of the top shelves to keep the temps in range from bottom to top.