So Most of us seem to use UTH for our various setups.
Per ZooMeds recommendation in the directions they actually say that mounting to the side of a tank is preferred over underneath the tank; No explanation for this that I could find.
I attached mine to the side because my tank was placed directly on a table and the directions say it can cause the table to fade/lose varnish or whatever.
Someone here told me that it does nothing to have it on the side because it does not affect the tanks internal heat. This is not true if you know how convection works. It heats the glass and thus provides a temperature rise to the air on the other side of the glass.
I removed the UTH from the side and immediately lost 3-5 degrees of internal tank temp from the side it was mounted to (heat may rise, but obviously a pad application of heat to the glass provided the environment with thermal difference).
I put the UTH under the tank on the cold side underneath the snake hide and the temp still remained lower overall.
So my question, figuring some of us understand how heat really works and is transferred is concerning temp measurements.
I see people putting their thermal probe under the tank, in direct contact with the UTH. How is this an accurate judgement of real time temperature if you're measuring the heat from the UTH and not what's being transferred through the glass to whatever you have on top of the glass to the snake? I just don't see how this could be accurate at all. The glass will distribute the heat as far out as it can as it is dissipating the heat (basically the way a radiator works -spread out the hot water over a large surface area provided and it cools the engine). Aren't you basically measuring the immediate release of heat and not what's being transferred?
Moving the UTH to underneath the tank did nothing for internal temps of the enclosure except lower them. Am I missing something here with this kind of application?
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