new thermostat on reptile basic

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Originally Posted by Agent73

I personally would have no problem with paying a little extra to be able to choose the color of the LCD. I'm a fan of the cool blue LCD's with white letter/numbers.

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Same here. I've gotten very used to the blue white white lettering. I love that I can see it from across the room without issue.

Rich,
A typical auto inverter would likely be a torture test for a Triac. I would not expect great reliable results, although you never know.

I run a completely dual system now flexwatt for hot and cool sides on everything. (17 inch low voltage stuff on the cool side it doesn't get much over 89º ever.) and would love to have a set of cool side controllers plugged into an transfer switch from the line to a inverter with 4 deep cycle marine batteries. Power goes off and a second later the cool end climate controls are back up and running off batteries.

The temp may drop but at least one end of the enclosures will be 80ºF that is my hope anyway, the failing has been the inverter a pure seine wave one is in the range of 1000$ then add batteries and well you can see the math... BEL or battery backup thingy... it is a bit of a hard sell if you see my point. How often does the power go off, in winter, when you are not home, and for more than 8 hours? But it only takes once.

I am very interested in knowing what will happen if you get around to that test.

Thank You
Alex

Alex- You have me curious now as well. I would agree that the car inverter would be a train wreck but it does not really cost anything to try it out either. Let me see if I have time tomorrow to camp out in my truck for a little while................

Well Rich that is going to interesting to see for sure. If you want to send one up to me I can test it out and let you know what happens.... :D I have a couple a 2000 and 750 watt ones... I also have a tronix explorer se ... I don't mind testing one at all...

Alex ;)

Ok-
I finally got time to test the ve's out on a car inverter. The messiest of all power sources. I did not expect anything great but what the heck?

Worked fine. Tried it for about an hour with a 28 watt heat panel, probe on the lens surface. Acted 100% normal, got up to temp in a few minutes and stayed within 2 degrees (not bad for a 63 degree car seat) the whole time using the hi/lo history. Pretty happy with that. I will say that 5anyone wanting to use an alternate power source like a generator or inverter should definitely do a little testing of their own as every one can be a little different. Still, not too shabby!

Smae here I'm really used to and love the blue LCD screen. I'll be looking to buy one when they come in blue 2

Wow Rich that is unexpected! gee and news on that demo? ;)

Sorry, bad news :colbert:
Thought you where going to wait 6 months??

I will let you all know Wednesday when the 3 I ordered get here. I know I will like them though after talking with Rich about them. Like I have always said since I started dealing with him. He stands by his word and is an outstanding customer service minded person to deal with. He has saved my behind more than once with idea's on how to do what I want easier and better.

I have the 300 tstat from reptile basics and love it!