what is a good thermostat?

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Originally Posted by llovelace

Until you can get a Helix, spyder etc. Just go to Home depot and pick up a Levitron lamp dimmer for $8 and change it does the same thing as the reptitemp 500r

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the 500R is an ON and off style thermostat. it is NOT the repti temp Rheostat.

i like my zilla tstat for daytime and rstat for night

they seem to work fine for me

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Originally Posted by zombie&lemons

i like my zilla tstat for daytime and rstat for night

they seem to work fine for me

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Why not tstat 24/7?

I'd go with the Johnson Control's A-419 thremostat. I have a few, and they work great.

On ebay you can regularly find used Ranco or Johnson Control thermostats already wired for $50 or less shipped. You can also buy new ones unwired there. Search "thermostats" and bettter yet "Temperature controls". These Ranco's are commonly used by home beer brewers and that's how they end up on ebay. For that price a Zoo Med price may not look so attractive to you. But you can get by with Rheostats or ReptiTemps or whatever until you can do better. :)

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Originally Posted by dsirkle

On ebay you can regularly find used Ranco or Johnson Control thermostats already wired for $50 or less shipped. You can also buy new ones unwired there. Search "thermostats" and bettter yet "Temperature controls". These Ranco's are commonly used by home beer brewers and that's how they end up on ebay. For that price a Zoo Med price may not look so attractive to you. But you can get by with Rheostats or ReptiTemps or whatever until you can do better. :)

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Thats pretty cool. I tried looking up thermostats a few days ago, and i never saw a thing ( maybe One Herpstat, that wasnt worth it) . But now... when i do the "Temperature Controls" I find a bunch!

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Originally Posted by DutchHerp

Why not tstat 24/7?

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i have a night and day cycle so i uses the tstat during daytime hours and rheostat during night time hours

my room is complete blacked out cause the sun shines through my window when im tryin to sleep i work long and wierd hours

I've only ever used the Johnson's.

I have recently purchased a Herpstat ND....They ARE the way to go....Customer service is OUTSTANDING...they will answer any questions about tstats, heat tape, etc. and that means alot to somebody who just started out!! (like myself). The herpstat has a TON of features and they several different modeels depending on your setup. I would recommed HERPSTAT all the way!! IMO it would be better to just skip to the chase and go Herpstat from the very beginning, by the time you spend 20-30 dollars (or whatever) buying the cheap stuff, you could have almost half of your Herpstat paid for!! GO HERPSTAT!!

This advertisment was in part sponsored by M. Goodwin and Goodwin Reptiles. All of the above info should be accepted as factual product info. LMAO :D

I agree with the post above. Go ahead and buy what you will need later. I feel like if I bought the 500r or other products that look like that, I would be endangering my animals because of many things I would have running off of it. If I only had one to three animals and did not want any more, then I might pick one of those. I'm not downing those thermostats but I will say that I do not think they are professional grade. To each his own.