Rack Building Help

[dr del]

Hi,

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one more bump

No One knows? Rughhhhhh

Will you please be a little more patient?

This is not a chatroom - it may take a while to get the specific answers you need.

Three bumps inside two hours is ridiculous unless you have a genuine emergency.


dr del

[reptidude1]

kaorte that is EXACTLY what im looking to build, but i compromised. I took the idea from rabernet's economy rack and but it to work with a slightly bigger plastic rack from home depot, but had to leave the tops on because of the plastic having slits in it ill try and get a pic up a little later

[reptidude1]

kaorte, i was looking at your rack building progress thread and wanted to know- when you wire all that heat tape each on its own circuit, how to you plug it all into one t stat? do u have more than one or does yours have alot of plugs? I know my helix dosent... Ive been looking but i cant find a power strip that has only a 2 prong plug and dosent have a surge protecter

[Kaorte]

kaorte, i was looking at your rack building progress thread and wanted to know- when you wire all that heat tape each on its own circuit, how to you plug it all into one t stat? do u have more than one or does yours have alot of plugs? I know my helix dosent... Ive been looking but i cant find a power strip that has only a 2 prong plug and dosent have a surge protecter

Yeah. The Johnson control stat that I have has 6 outlets on a power strip.

I don't have any experience with helix stats but I assume there is a way to wire a power strip into it.

[reptidude1]

Yeah. The Johnson control stat that I have has 6 outlets on a power strip.

I don't have any experience with helix stats but I assume there is a way to wire a power strip into it.

yeah i was looking in home depot and a can only find grounded power strips with durge protectors which can short out the helix, but ill keep looking.

[Kaorte]

Don't you want a grounded power strip with a surge protection button?

I would check target or something. They might have something.

[reptidude1]

no because a grounded plug has 3 prongs not 2, and the helix can only take 2 prongs and a surge protector will short out the t stat

[m00kfu]

So get a power strip without a surge protector? I'd bet that most of what you're looking at are just power strips anyway. Just because it has the switch doesn't mean it's a surge protector.

[reptidude1]

i know that they all say surge protector, but in the hardwere store i bought 2 small 3 outlet extenders- nothing fancy- no wire no plug just a plain old adapter

[snakedork]

I have built a 41qt sideways. It has 4 41qts and 6 32qt. I have had no sagging. Its on wheels. I have one continuous piece of heat tape through it. It keeps all the tubes at one temp very well I run that rack and 3 others on my herpstat pro without problems. I am still trying to find pictures sorry new computer old hard drive crashed. Not sure if i have any pictures of it anymore will take new ones of i can't find any of the old ones.