I got my rack!!

Holy wow, I have the thermostat set at 105 and its still only giving me 86 on the warm side. I have a temp probe on the outside of the bin and one on the inside of the bin against where the heat is above the substrate. we have been slowly increasing the thermostat heat. good lord its going to be 115 before I get my warm side temps where i want them

What's the room your keeping it in's ambient temp?

Back heat isn't as effective as belly heat. It doesn't make as good a contact with the tub. There's always that big gap.

What you could do is set up a dummy tub. Put the thermostat probe in it on the back wall of the tub. Set it to what you want the temp to be in all your tubs. Whah-lah.

Protected a little from ambient room temps. Gets you the temp you want in all the other tubs. And there's no risk of an animal moving it.

Hope you get everything squared away.

Ashley.............your DOOMED! Your Hooked like a 15pound SeaBass! NIce Rack! :gj:

Put the Thermostat probe slightly in front of the flexwatt.............and turn the flex watt down to 95 for now.


If you have your old enclosures you might want to put the snakes back in there, until your temps are stable!

I'm charging my camera give me a second and i'll get a picture of how i do it up...............i also use back heat!

LOL reediculous.. my husband said i have a nice rack now too hahahahhahahaha... ok back to PG rating. thank you, im defiantly hooked in the worst way, almost tempted to buy another rack since i got this one at such an awesome price. but i know if i have more slots ill get more animals and that is NOT the plan right now lol. thank you for the help.. ill get crackin at it lol

2kdime. the house is kept pretty cool, I think our ambient in the house is around 72? :rolleyes: i know its cold! If i move the probe then i wouldnt know how hot the flexwatt is would i? does that really matter since i need to get the temp inside the bins right.. (did that make sense?) is there anything actually wrong with having the thermostat set so high (kinda like a dummy temp since i have to make the temp inside the bins right) as long as the temps inside the bins arent that high? I know back heat isnt as ideal but for the price i paid how could one say no? I suppose we could redo the flexwatt and make it into belly heat, not that i would really want to if we can get it working right this way though.

the flexwatt doesnt feel hot at all to the touch. is it possible the probe is misreading?

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LOL reediculous.. my husband said i have a nice rack now too hahahahhahahaha... ok back to PG rating. thank you, im defiantly hooked in the worst way, almost tempted to buy another rack since i got this one at such an awesome price. but i know if i have more slots ill get more animals and that is NOT the plan right now lol. thank you for the help.. ill get crackin at it lol

2kdime. the house is kept pretty cool, I think our ambient in the house is around 72? :rolleyes: i know its cold! If i move the probe then i wouldnt know how hot the flexwatt is would i? does that really matter since i need to get the temp inside the bins right.. (did that make sense?) is there anything actually wrong with having the thermostat set so high (kinda like a dummy temp since i have to make the temp inside the bins right) as long as the temps inside the bins arent that high? I know back heat isnt as ideal but for the price i paid how could one say no? I suppose we could redo the flexwatt and make it into belly heat, not that i would really want to if we can get it working right this way though.

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I thought the same thing......but moving the probe was the only way i could get my temps right. I used foil tape to secure it......and my Helix thermostat is set to 96 and the temps inside the tub are always 92-93 (perfect) I'll get a pick up in two minutes.

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the flexwatt doesnt feel hot at all to the touch. is it possible the probe is misreading?

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It shouldn't feel HOT, but it should feel warm.

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I thought the same thing......but moving the probe was the only way i could get my temps right. I used foil tape to secure it......and my Helix thermostat is set to 96 and the temps inside the tub are always 92-93 (perfect) I'll get a pick up in two minutes.

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mine is secured with the foil tape also. but again the flexwatt doesnt feel friggin 106 degrees lol. it feels warm but certainly not hot by any means