Re: Thoughts on our rack?
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Originally Posted by
JHPythons
Ok so I think you could do a few things. The problem with the wire rack is the heat escapes in all directions, what you want is for it to be directed towards the tub and snake. Get some "Reflectix" insulation and place it under the tub with the heat tape/UTH on top of the "reflectix". This will make sure all your heat is going up into the tub and not radiating in all directions. Next, it looks like you have a thermostat for every tub? As long as the heat tape or UTH is the same wattage you can plug in multiple UTH or heat tape strips to the same thermostat. what might work for you is run two thermostats....one connecting all the warm sides, and the other regulating all the cool sides. You can daisy-chain the four warm to one stat and the cool four to the cool stat.
Hope this makes sense and helps.
Would I just get a 2 prong splittle to run the multiple heat pads at once? And I'll for sure invest in some sort of insulation to try to get those ambient temps us. And 2 are the same but 2 are different from the rest of the UTH sources. They're of slightly different sizes. Thats the main reason I got the seperate thermostats.
Re: Thoughts on our rack?
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Originally Posted by
cheosamad
Would I just get a 2 prong splittle to run the multiple heat pads at once? And I'll for sure invest in some sort of insulation to try to get those ambient temps us. And 2 are the same but 2 are different from the rest of the UTH sources. They're of slightly different sizes. Thats the main reason I got the seperate thermostats.
As long as you are plugging in two of the same size or wattage, yes you can get a plug splitter of some sort and it will work just fine. If ones big and one is small...it prob wont work the same as it takes more power to heat the bigger one than the smaller one. You would have the small one really hot while the larger on is just coming up to temp...and thats no good.
Re: Thoughts on our rack?
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Originally Posted by
JHPythons
As long as you are plugging in two of the same size or wattage, yes you can get a plug splitter of some sort and it will work just fine. If ones big and one is small...it prob wont work the same as it takes more power to heat the bigger one than the smaller one. You would have the small one really hot while the larger on is just coming up to temp...and thats no good.
Yeah thats about what I figured. I'm planning on upgrading to a herpstat 2 and when I do that I'll be switching my UTH to proper flexwatt heat tape.
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