Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
see this is what i dont understand! i dont see why it would matter becouse most people put the probe right on top of the flex watt! if this is the case then it would not matter if all the enclosers are diff size becouse the flex watt will all be the same temp! aslong as u put the same type of snake in there. it should not matter!
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by snakebitten69
see this is what i dont understand! i dont see why it would matter becouse most people put the probe right on top of the flex watt! if this is the case then it would not matter if all the enclosers are diff size becouse the flex watt will all be the same temp! aslong as u put the same type of snake in there. it should not matter!
It does matter, You are trying to heat 3 different sized tubs at the same temp. The Hotspot in the 41qt could be 90, The smaller bins could be 100 or more. Not the same Floor space.
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
it dose not matter! your useing the same heat tape! now if u tell me that the longer the heat tape is the less heat will be there @ the end of the tape then i would say it dose matter. but thats not the case! now if your not putting the probe on top of the heat tape then i can see your point!
so what your tell me is the heat tape will get hotter in a smaller encloser? if that the case your wrong! now with the smaller encloser the cool side will stay a bit hotter then the larger eclosers! but as the far as the hot side floor heat goes it will stay the same temp! dose not matter what size encloser it is!
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by snakebitten69
it dose not matter! your useing the same heat tape! now if u tell me that the longer the heat tape is the less heat will be there @ the end of the tape then i would say it dose matter. but thats not the case! now if your not putting the probe on top of the heat tape then i can see your point!
so what your tell me is the heat tape will get hotter in a smaller encloser? if that the case your wrong! now with the smaller encloser the cool side will stay a bit hotter then the larger eclosers! but as the far as the hot side floor heat goes it will stay the same temp! dose not matter what size encloser it is!
First of all, take a nice deep breath...
Even using the same heat tape, with using the different size tubs you are going to create a different thermal gradient. The heat tape will only get as hot as you allow it to get with a tstat, but the tub temperatures are going to vary greatly from a large 41qt tub to a 6qt tub, the floor space varies so much. In a larger tub with the tstat set to the same as a smaller tub the temps are going to change more drastically from one side of the tub to the other, therefore the overall temps will changes...in the smaller tub you will more than likely have higher temps because of the lack of space to create a nice gradient. Plain and simple.
Jason
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
i understand that the thermal gradient will be diff! but my point is if u put the probe right on top of the heat tape your going to get the same temp right there @ the probe! right? i dont see why if would matter!
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by snakebitten69
i understand that the thermal gradient will be diff! but my point is if u put the probe right on top of the heat tape your going to get the same temp right there @ the probe! right? i dont see why if would matter!
Build it, Have Fun!!
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by JASBALLS
Build it, Have Fun!!
LMAO!!!! :lmao: :lmao:
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by snakebitten69
but my point is if u put the probe right on top of the heat tape your going to get the same temp right there @ the probe! right? i dont see why if would matter!
it would matter because when the thermo-stat shuts off the flexwatt when the warm side in the small tub is, say 92 degrees, the warm side in the big tub would be way to cool. vise versa with the probe in the big tub. if it was shut off at 92 in the big tubs the small tubs could be allowed to get 100+ in the warm side before the thermostat shuts it off. understand?
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake
Does anyone know if having 3" flexwatt run along the length of a container would provide enough heat gradient to have different temperatures in two sections? i was thinking of a 23x16 tub or a 34x16 tub
https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../8/example.jpg
Thanks again
I think everyone needs to take a deep breath. LOL!! If you look at the design pictured above, he has them situated so the long sides of the boxes are across the heat tape. So each tub has a different amount of heat tape under each one. So the wattage to each tub will be different. Now I dont have the exact measurements of each tub listed, but if the depth from heat tape to the front of the tub is approximately the same distance it MAY work. The only way to dismiss it is to try it, dont rule it out. Just my 2 cents. :)
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
The only thing I have to add to this is that I run a 6 shelf sideways rack that uses both 15qt and 32qt tubs. They all run on the same t-stat and the same piece of flexwatt running through the entire rack. The temp differences from the small tubs to the large ones are very small.... within .5 degree. The ambient temps in the small tubs are within 1.5 degrees of the bigger ones...
Now.... I have NO experience with using THREE different sized tubs in the same rack....
Hope this helps...
