I finally found rancos on ebay!!

Unless you want to do it yourself, I would suggest you to get it from someone that knows what he is doing and for that I would suggest http://www.reptilebasics.com/Ranco-E...d-p-16172.html

I trust my bf to do it, he went to college for 3 years for home automation which is wiring home theatre and automated heating/cooling/lighting and whatnot. I will check with him before I buy anything though. I have looked at reptile basics for rancos and other thermostats. Thanx for your help!

If your bf does low voltage wiring he can wire that. All it is is a relay. :gj: I do the same thing home automation and security/cctv systems, it's easy.

Thanx!! I asked him and he said yea easy peasy but I would have been a bit surprised if I bought one and didn't know what to do with it.

come on chickens its 4 stinkin wires! its a pita to get to them but its not hard and the instructions are very very good

It's as easy as this.Anyone can do it. http://www.rcreptiles.com/blog/index...000_thermosta_

i bought three johnson controls from ebay all new for 100 shipped the guy was selling them for 30 each unwired though but that no proplem it not hard as long as you can read a diagram.

Is ranco one of the better ones? I have two thermostats but they sometimes fluctuate. The warm side tends to stay within 90-94 but every now and then jumps to an unexpected 100.2 F.

I really need a new thermostat but don't want to spend a lot. Would this be a good one? Oh and I don't mind wiring

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Originally Posted by hammerhead

Is ranco one of the better ones? I have two thermostats but they sometimes fluctuate. The warm side tends to stay within 90-94 but every now and then jumps to an unexpected 100.2 F.

I really need a new thermostat but don't want to spend a lot. Would this be a good one? Oh and I don't mind wiring

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Ranco and Johnson's are the favored on/off thermostats, Helix and Herpstat are the two favored proportional thermostats.

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Originally Posted by hammerhead

Is ranco one of the better ones? I have two thermostats but they sometimes fluctuate. The warm side tends to stay within 90-94 but every now and then jumps to an unexpected 100.2 F.

I really need a new thermostat but don't want to spend a lot. Would this be a good one? Oh and I don't mind wiring

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Do you have a dial that you have to change to keep the temp right? Thats a rheostat (what I have at the moment) and they fluctuate a lot. The thermostats (ranco or johnson at least) switch on and off when the temps go above or below what you have set to be the min/max. A lot less worry:)