Proportional Thermostats?

What would you suggest if I wanted to heat my tanks with heat tape. I need something that can moderate how much heat is going into it so it can basically keep temps where they need to be for me..is that how it works? haha. I wanna get rid of all the heat lamps.

Proportional thermostats are really nice www.Bigappleherps.com has really good thermostats, Herpstat which is make by Spyder Robotics are the two I would recommend. I think weather you go with an off/on thermostat or a Proportional it is really important to get a quality thermostat to run heat tape. Heat tape can be a very dangerous thing if not done correctly. It needs to be wired correctly and more so it should not be overheated. This is were a quality thermostat comes into play. Everything electrical could cause a fire and burn down you house so I am not saying heat tape and not other forms of heat have a level of danger. Heat tape has burned down a lot of home though so be careful. Doing your homework and investing in a good thermostat goes a long was to minimizing your fire risk.


Chuck

definitely need thermostats for heat tape, and you should get a thermometer with a probe too so you know when to lower the wattage. flexwatt can get up to 110°F and possibly even over, so those two things are ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL with heat tape.

oh, yeah, and big apple herp does have some really good thermostats that have worked well for me.

yeah im building a rack soon, so the flexawatt seems like it should do the trick as long as im using something to keep it under control

Helix proportional thermostats work great.

thanks man.