Wal-mart scrood the pooch

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Originally Posted by justcage

Well if you have any clue what you are doing that will not happen. Do you think a human heating pad is ment to be used under a reptile encloursure? UM how about a big ol bag of NO!

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I haven't heard of any stories about homes burning down from human heating pads just yet.

Also, for your information Flex Watt isn't made for reptile heating.

I haven't had any problems with heating my cages with a heating pad, and I'm not planning to take a chance with burning down my house and slaughtering my investments, so how about a big bag of ol no thank you.

I buy mine at target. Wallmart is the devil.

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Also, for your information Flex Watt isn't made for reptile heating.

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Actually that statement is 100% wrong, when the product first started being used it was intended for seed bed propagation, But as most good companies do they saw a good business oportunity and started makeing a wattage specific heat tape just for herps I spoke with a company rep about this specifically when Looking for a source to buy my heat tape

Justcage Ithink was just trying to make a point ..human heat pads arent designed for prolonged use and Iam sure there is a very good reason behind the auto shut off that they are starting to implement in the product
For example ... Many many many homes have burned down with the usage of electric blankets in the past .. why... simply because most of the the home owners left them on while they go to work or whatever ... something the product was not designed for
Also withProper usage"of flex watt it is probably the safest most reliable and economical way to heat enclosures.Asfar as i know there have not been any incidents with properly installed flexwatt IE no bends,kinks,cuts,sandwiching ,useing proper connectors and insulateing them Many people like to take short cuts to save a little cash ..and i mean very little cash and skip the connectors , and solder the connections and use no insulators, using electrical tape instead
But naturally .. humans being like they are when something goes wrong ... it was no fault of their own ..it must be the product
Sorry for the long post but I have seen a ton of people do things like install the tape on top of rack shelves rakeing their tubs ocross it over and over ... then post on forums telling every one what a pos flexwatt is when it fails on then or shorts out and burns their house down

Yeah i was a little worried about a human heat pad running 24/7 for God knows how long for the same reason Robert stated about electric blankets.
I know it's over kill but on my 20L glass tank where I use a heat pad I have it on a Helixdbs1000 so it doesn't run all the time.
I will soon be moving Osiris to a new Animal Plastics and will do away w/ the heat pad/ tank all together.
But hey many on here have used them for a long time w/ no problems so who I am to say different. :)

Robert, you'll have to come to my house and wire it for me :P
I don't trust myself with wiring, I really don't want to take the risk of burning down my house.

Robert do you wire them for shelving units individually or serially?

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Originally Posted by justcage

Well if you have any clue what you are doing that will not happen. Do you think a human heating pad is ment to be used under a reptile encloursure? UM how about a big ol bag of NO!

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Acually human heat pads work just fine for me.

Yeah, I haven't ever had problems with human heat pads.
Maybe because I don't put them on high, since I live in Florida and have centrail air. :shock:

I might look into FlexWatt Heating, once I build a rack system.

Agree - they are a great stop-gap and starter solution. Not suitable if you have 20+ plugged in all over - I'd go FlexWatt too at that level. Provided ventilation is allowed under the enclosure so heat cannot pool up and possibly damage the pad itself, and that no heavy edges are mashing into the coils or cord you're fine. I'd be far more concerned popping a 150W heat bulb into a cheap hood lamp and leaving it on or for that matter any sort of regular exceeding of the "reccomended wattage" by blindly using bulbs.

Smulkin .. it depends on the application really For most of my racks I use back heat" which I feel is safer and provides a better gradient instead of a heated basking spot" so my racks are set up on individual connections i do have a few display cages that are wired in series with 1 foot sections of 11" heat tape