Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
well as far as the 27 quart and the 12 quart, I think they will both be almost exactly the same...
dimensions are ~ 16.5 x 23 and 16.5 x 11.5 so the way i have the 12 and 27 drawn, the 12 has 11.5 inches x 3 inches of heat tape, and the 27 has 23 inches x 3 inches of heat tape, which means the one that is twice as large has twice as much heat tape...
Heck, if you go to animal plastics they have their racks setup the same way
http://www.animalplastics.com/steril...High_small.jpg
I was just curious if it would make the snakes more uncomfortable because the different half of their tub is heated.
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
ditch the 41 qt tub, do a seperate rack for them. i second the 15 and 32 qt. sterilites! nice tubs and are very versatile. 3 inch flex will be fine. get a good stat helix or like.
vaughn
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by ddbjdealer
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...
I dont plan on using 3, just wouldnt be efficient for my sizing, I just added the large 41 quart for discussion purposes
Your post is EXACTLY the feedback i needed thanks !!!!
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by kavmon
ditch the 41 qt tub, do a seperate rack for them. i second the 15 and 32 qt. sterilites! nice tubs and are very versatile. 3 inch flex will be fine. get a good stat helix or like.
vaughn
yup thats the plan, sorry for the confusion :) I just threw the 41qt in for discussion because i was ALSO thinking of making a separate rack for 41 quarts.
I will be doing the 12 and 27 quarts on one rack.
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
i think it would work if he was to use a dimmer switch on it, set the dimmer with a volt meter to 60 volts out put and it will make the tape around 100 degrees and the tub 94 degrees. to use a thermostat i don't think it would work unless he puts the thermostat in the middle sized container and was able to accept the few degrees difference he will get from container to container. just my .02
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
lol ok so where are yall putting this probe for the thermostat? will the thermostat be measuring air temp or floor temp?
now i understand that the air temp on the cool side will be diff. but the hot side would be the same if the probe goes right on top of the heat tape!
ex. if u got 6ft foot heat tape and put 3 diff tubs on that.. if u put the probe in the middle tub on top of the heat tape the temp is going to be the same in all three tubs! now if i place the probe on the side of the tub on the hot side in the same middle tub thay will be all diff temps! my point is the heat tape only getts so hot and if your looking for your heat tape to get 94drg with the tstat the hole 6ft of heat tape will be 94deg! right or wrong!
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by Stings
to use a thermostat i don't think it would work unless he puts the thermostat in the middle sized container and was able to accept the few degrees difference he will get from container to container. just my .02
You don't put the probe in a tub, you put it directly over the heat tape. You control the temperature of the heat tape and adjust it until the temps in the tubs are at an acceptable range.
Re: Enclosed Racks- do you keep the lids on the tubs?
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Originally Posted by snakebitten69
ex. if u got 6ft foot heat tape and put 3 diff tubs on that.. if u put the probe in the middle tub on top of the heat tape the temp is going to be the same in all three tubs! now if i place the probe on the side of the tub on the hot side in the same middle tub thay will be all diff temps! my point is the heat tape only getts so hot and if your looking for your heat tape to get 94drg with the tstat the hole 6ft of heat tape will be 94deg! right or wrong!
The longer your run of heat tape the more variance you will see in temps, but they should be minimal in a 6 ft length. Like I said in above post, don't put your probe in tub, place it over the heat tape outside the tub and adjust accordingly. I don't think the argument is the hot spot temps, I think they are saying they don't think the ambient temps will be high enough in the rest of the tub. Once again this is relies on placement and arrangement of tubs and how much heat tape is in contact with each tub.
Example: If you used all 3 tubs and had the heat tape go across the back side of each tub (short side) then you heat gradient will be much different. But when you put the heat tape length wise (across the length), the longer the tub the more heat per tub.
