Ranco Thermostats

[Elise.m]

I'm thinking about buying one of these, but I was just curious about a few things. Do most of you use flexwatt with your Ranco? I have 3 UTHs right now, and am hoping that I can wire something to control all of them... Or just buy some flexwatt.

I'm not quite sure where I should go with this little situation, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

[Seru1]

I use UTH's with my rancos.

They connect into a 6 slot outlet strip like you might see on a computer. I love my ranco's personally.

[jjmitchell]

I will agree, I use a ranco to regulate temps on my snake racks, and leopard gecko colony.... works beautifuly

[Elise.m]

Does it keep both UTH's at the same temp?

[2kdime]

As long as they're the same size/wattage, you should be good.

Calorique does have slight variances between roll to roll of their products.

So if your going to be running a bunch of different pieces, its best to order them all at the same time to try and make sure they come off the same roll.

I try to do it that way anyway

Does it keep both UTH's at the same temp?

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

I have a double ranco and I love it. It is wired to a power strip and 5 different plugs for flexwatt are plugged into that. If you get one that is not already wired to a strip then you only need to plug the ranco into a strip and plug the strip into the wall. Then the UTH plugs go into the strip. The only odd thing I have ever noticed about mine is that the "set" temperature is 7-9 degrees lower than the desired temperature of the hot end of my enclosures. Meaning I have my ranco set at 83 but the flexwatt is staying at 90 or above. If I were to set the ranco at 90 the temps on the hot end would read over 100. I dont really understand this part but they work great for me.

[Seru1]

Does it keep both UTH's at the same temp?

Yes save for the differences that come with hieght. The top is warmer than the bottom etc.

[Elise.m]

Awesome, thanks everyone! I'll probly just order a pre wired one from RBI then, and maybe tweak some things around. I have a used rack and they have 2 sizes of UTHs glued on. But, they used it for boas, so I have more room than they did.

I'd prefer to get rid of the UTHs and do flexwatt.

[moravaguy]

i use a ranco with both heat tape 3 and 11 and uth on 2 different racks set her up on 100 put the probe on the middle of my 11' strip and there you have it everyone stays about 91 on the warm side

[Foschi Exotic Serpents]

Oh and I kind of worded my reply backwards. Since the thermostat controls the amount of power going to the heat then the heat needs to be plugged into the thermostat. Helix for instance, has an outlet on the therm itself. The strip is plugged into this while the therm is plugged into the wall and the plugs for the heat are plugged into the strip. I can see where it gets confusing lol! Im even confused at this point and dont know if I even said it right that time either.

Here is a link that shows how to properly wire a ranco.

http://www.rcreptiles.com/blog/index...1000_thermosta