Help!

Ok, I have a heating pad on both ends, hide over one and water dish over another and a hide in the middle........................

I have a therm/humid at both ends and my temps have been at 78 on the cool end and 85-88 on the warm end, the humidity on the cool end is at 60ish and on the warm end 50ish so I figured I was doing good.

I purchased a ESU controller thing and set it all up today and I put the probe under the substrate (newspaper) in the hide on the warm end and plugged bothe the 50w red lamp and the warm end heating pad into it and it wouldn't turn on which means it must have been over 105 degrees in the hide???????

Did I put the probe in the wrong place?

After a few hours it goes on for a bit every 20 minutes or so and then off again but now the other digital thermometers are down to 74 on the cool end but that pad is still on, and 76 on the warm end with the light and heat pad going on and off all the time............


Any suggestions??????????????