Missed a few posts while I was out of town.

Remember if you plan to use both heat tape for belly heat and a radiant heat panel for ambient, you will need to control both heat sources, not just one. Some people just use a radiant heat panel and put it on one end and heat the ambient on that end to around 90. I want to just have the hot spot on the floor and not heat everything up.

I also went with the reptile basics RHP. They also shipped directly to AP who then installed it before they shipped my T10. I just couldn't justify almost twice the price after shipping. I also got the heat tape directly from AP. If I had known more about it, I might have gone a different route. I don't like the way you kind of have to leave it hanging out the back or side on the cage based on the instructions, especially when it's just taped to the bottom. It doesn't have any issues heating the pvc and keeping the floor at the correct temp.

If you only go with one heat source, then you could probably just go with the Herpstat 1 basic. The differences I could find were something about the clocks, which won't really matter for constant temp control, it won't do humidity, which again won't matter for this application and it takes out the safety relay feature. I guess that last one might concern me a little, I don't know what effect that would have if the unit fails. You might want to research that a little more. I'll try to get some pics this evening if I get a chance.

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