Ideal Cage Supplies

I'd say the 32$ one is fine. I got a similar one from the petstore and it seems to do the trick. I'm not home all the time and sometimes go on vacation, so I feel a lot more comfortable having one.

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Hate to break ur bubble, but the temp generated by the pc itself would cause an error

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How so if the recording end of the probe is way outside the PC (say a 20'+ line)? Heck I could splice a CPU fan with a thermal probe, extend it and use the FAN3 pinout on the mobo and run it clear over to the enclosure and that alone would poll temperatures independent of the case. I bet one could even design those probes to be wireless (IR) at a higher cost and get rid of even more cabling mess . . . but what would I do without cabling mess . . . I would feel so . . . incomplete . . .

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

I bet one could even design those probes to be wireless (IR) at a higher cost and get rid of even more cabling mess . . . but what would I do without cabling mess . . . I would feel so . . . incomplete . . .

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LOL ... spaghetti cable syndrome has you in its clutches! I've seen wireless thermometers at WalMart, so it probably would be a pretty straightforward matter to have that data captured by the pc rather than the base unit, but I think the ones I've seen were RF instead of IR, so it would require a hardware add-on.

never seen the need for a thermostat. never had a temp problem with heating pads.

Hehe - in any event working at a hardware level to engineer something like that is a little beyond me - if I knew how to do that I'd likely be designing graphics cards.

I should mention it to our resident genius here. If it interests him, he might be willing to give it a shot.

Actually I have a rheostat. Since the temps in my house are constantly the same, it's all I need. It keeps my temps steady. The heatmats alone get WAY too hot; I could not imagine not having at least a rheostat or lamp dimmer.