Thermostat rant

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Originally Posted by Reinz

http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/16/01...7cda8a317a.jpg

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You and your fancy Redline model. :P

Just looking on amazon but I don't see the watt rating on them

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000NZ...XDNCHY1SWZ45XY

Is this the one you are referring to?

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Originally Posted by Bcycling

Just looking on amazon but I don't see the watt rating on them

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000NZ...XDNCHY1SWZ45XY

Is this the one you are referring to?

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Yep - that's the one. The specs are in the product manual: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81rF3YE328S.pdf.

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* Do not exceed a total of 1000 watts of heating devices plugged into thermostat.

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Great thanks. Here is another question. So I got 8 one foot strips of 11" flexwatt at 20 watts a foot. That's 160 watts. If I ever came to the point where I wanted to build another rack could I run them both off the one herpstat? Assuming I use the same length and type of flexwatt.

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Originally Posted by Bcycling

Just looking on amazon but I don't see the watt rating on them

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B000NZ...XDNCHY1SWZ45XY

Is this the one you are referring to?

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That's the one I currently have !

So Eric Alan I could get Herpstat 1 or 2 no problem using this one as a backup ? Since they are 700/900watt, right ? Would it be best to get 1 herpstat 2 or 2 herpstat 1 ? Right now I have 2 of these, one for my rack of 1 (hopefully more in spring) and one for quarantine (a friends snake for now).

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Originally Posted by Bcycling

Great thanks. Here is another question. So I got 8 one foot strips of 11" flexwatt at 20 watts a foot. That's 160 watts. If I ever came to the point where I wanted to build another rack could I run them both off the one herpstat? Assuming I use the same length and type of flexwatt.

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Yes.

Great thread. Learned a lot! Thanks

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Originally Posted by Ufoo9k

That's the one I currently have !

So Eric Alan I could get Herpstat 1 or 2 no problem using this one as a backup ? Since they are 700/900watt, right ? Would it be best to get 1 herpstat 2 or 2 herpstat 1 ? Right now I have 2 of these, one for my rack of 1 (hopefully more in spring) and one for quarantine (a friends snake for now).

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The answer, as always, is it depends. If you're thinking "ultimate safety" (the theme of this thread), then you'd need to go with multiple Herpstat 1s and have a backup on each of them. Personally, I'd go with the Herpstat 2 for the price, convenience, reputation, and reliability that Herpstats have.

I'm not even sure how you'd begin to backup a Herpstat 2 or 4...