Animal plastics t8's/herpstat question

[BFT12890]

i wouldnt do it either beccause if one RHP fails where th t stat probe is the other tank will get cooked and you will have 2 dead snakes. each tank should get its own probe.

Also i have two tanks stacked and the top tank gets a cooler temp even tho both hot spots have to be at 92. the bottom tank heats the floor where the RHP is. so my top tank is set to 84 and my bottom tank is 87

Hmm interesting, I didnt even think about it like that, thanks for the tip!

If one of the heat sources were to fail 1 of 4 things will happen:

1. The heat source that isn't being monitored by the thermostat stopes working and the cage gets cold and there isn't anything to warn you.

2. The heat source that isn't being monitored shorts out and gets really hot. The cage overheats and once again there isn't anything to warn you.

3. The heat source that is being monitored stops working and that cage goes cold. At the same the time The other cage gets really hot because the thermostat is trying to reheat the first cage.

4. The heat source being monitored shorts out and heat up. the thermostat detects this and reduces or cuts power going to the heat sources. Both cages go cold.

None of those situations are good, and they can be easily avoided by having 1 thermostat per heat source. Anything less is just being cheap and asking for disaster.

Ok, that makes sense. please excuse my ignorance im new to this aspect of heating, im only used to lamps lol. Swhat your saying is have a thermostat per enclosure, so basically buy 2 herpstat 1's or 2's instead of buying say a herpstat 4 for both enclosures?

[martin82531]

Base the herpstat you purchase based on how many heat sources you have, not really on how many enclosures you have.

Herpstat 1 = 1 heat source
Herpstat 2 = 1 - 2 heat sources
Herpstat 4 = 1 - 4 heat sources


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[martin82531]

If you had 2 enclosures with 2 heat sources, normally I would say a herpstat 4, but if you had two enclosures that are too far apart (e.g. separate rooms), you would want two herpstat 2's verse one herpstat 4.


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[The Serpent Merchant]

Hmm interesting, I didnt even think about it like that, thanks for the tip!



Ok, that makes sense. please excuse my ignorance im new to this aspect of heating, im only used to lamps lol. Swhat your saying is have a thermostat per enclosure, so basically buy 2 herpstat 1's or 2's instead of buying say a herpstat 4 for both enclosures?

A single herpstat 2 or a single herpstat 4 would be fine. The herpstat 2 is literally 2 herpstat 1's in a single box, and the herpstat 4 = 4 herpstat 1's in a single box.

What you want is 1 probe per heat source. A herpstat 1 has 1 probe. A herpstat 2 has 2 probes so it can run 2 heat sources.

A single herpstat 4 can safely control 4 heat sources.

[martin82531]

A little more simpler put:

Herpstat 1: one thermostat
Herpstat 2: two thermostats in one
Herpstat 4: four thermostats in one


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[BFT12890]

Awesome, thank you both very much for simplifying it for me, I really appriciate it!