tempermental heating equipment

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Originally Posted by Adam_Wysocki

I had one die completely ... and I had another that just couldn't keep up with temp changes at all ... the room temp would drop a couple of degrees and the ESU unit would take hours to get the cages to the correct temps ... it was ridiculous ... I replaced them with Helix's and never looked back.

-adam

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Wow thats wild! Thanks for letting me know.The other person said the temps would go up then down constantly.I guess i will keep an eye on them.

those alife and esu thermostats are made with bi-metal coils that expand and contract. that technology is 80+ years old. they also can vary +/- of 3-5 degrees!:mad: rancos and johnsons are digital, made with solid state relays, +/- to one deg.:D


proportionals are golden! a nice helix and some flexwatt is all you need!


:soapbx: :rockon: :partyon:


vaughn

I use a Herpstat 2 and also have two JC tstats. The JC units are used with my baby tubs that have 2 separately wired pieces of 11" flexwatt(each is one foot long).

One piece is plugged directly into the thermostat, while the other piece is plugged into a Lutron Credenza dimmer from Home Depot, and then plugged into the thermostat. Once you get the temperatures set on the cool side, they never fluctuate and the temps stay in the 94/84 range. Works well for anyone on a budget :) $70 for the JC unit and another $11 for the dimmer(which is plug and play).

Herpstat 2's can also control 2 separate heating devices, and I use one output to control the warm side of my rack. The other output controls the cool side flexwatt. Works great!

I would like a Helix one day just so I can have some comparison and get some experience with all of the good tstats.