Fed up, getting a thermostat...

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Originally Posted by mousch

Really? I swear I remember being told to put tstat probles on the inside, but Jaime is definitely smarter than me about this stuff :)

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I'm definitely not smarter than anyone :)

Thermostat probes and tape are the two things that don't belong inside an enclosure. Your probe should be directly on your heat source.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

You put your digital thermometer probe inside on top of the substrate to measure what those temps are.

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Righto. Can you edit out my bad advice up there please? I ran out of edit time.

ummmm, how would thermostat probes being outside the tank help any? cause then the thermostat would have the UTH going full blast trying to get the probe to read 95 degrees when it never will, cause my room will never ever be 95 degrees. Even on this care sheet the probe is inside the tank and people use this guide like the snake bible or something:

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=32800


EDIT: New post above of you saying to put it directly on the heat source makes more sense. But people run probes into their tanks all the time for their thermometers, why wouldnt you do this for a thermostat?

You put it on the UTH, so the thermostat knows how hot the UTH is and when to stop.

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Originally Posted by sw204me

ummmm, how would thermostat probes being outside the tank help any? cause then the thermostat would have the UTH going full blast trying to get the probe to read 95 degrees when it never will, cause my room will never ever be 95 degrees. Even on this care sheet the probe is inside the tank and people use this guide like the snake bible or something:

http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=32800


EDIT: New post above of you saying to put it directly on the heat source makes more sense. But people run probes into their tanks all the time for their thermometers, why wouldnt you do this for a thermostat?

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The reason you don't want a thermostat probe inside the tank is if it gets dislodged, the temps will shoot up and possibly kill your snake. If you put it on the heat tape directly, you calibrate the temps of the heat tape to whatever temp it takes to get 92-94 on the bottom of your enclosure.

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Originally Posted by jglass38

The reason you don't want a thermostat probe inside the tank is if it gets dislodged, the temps will shoot up and possibly kill your snake. If you put it on the heat tape directly, you calibrate the temps of the heat tape to whatever temp it takes to get 92-94 on the bottom of your enclosure.

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:bow: Thanks!