PLease help - thermostat suggestions wanted.

[snakesRkewl]

Ah. Perfectly reasonable. I've just heard enough failure stories of the ReptiTemp.

When you make 500,000 units a year your bound to have failures.
I've got 4 repti-temps running for 2 yrs now and no issues at all.
I have had one fail, it failed the first week I got it and the replacement is working like a charm.
I totally prefer my herpstat though, what a great little t-stat that is.

[snakesRkewl]

Herpstat all the way. Buy directly and get the grounded one, Dion is top notch. If it's for a tank I set the t-stat between 100-102 to get about 90 degrees for the hot spot. Hope this helps!

For a herpstat that's an awful big difference.
My herpstat on my inc gets the heat tape to 90 degrees while the herpstat box reads 93.0, wonder why yours is 10-12 degrees difference? cold room?

[greg728]

So should the glass/uth read 92 degrees, or the temp after the substrate?? I use aspen...

[Blue Apple Herps]

Herpstat.

[/thread]

No seriously, I love my herpstat and spyderrobotics has the absolute BEST customer service. I bought a Herpstat Pro several years ago and had a probe error. When I contacted them asking what could have caused it and how to prevent it, they said the probe had gone bad and sent me a new one free of charge.

Good luck finding any other company to offer replacement parts years after you originally bought it. I can't recommend them enough.

[BMorrison]

For a herpstat that's an awful big difference.
My herpstat on my inc gets the heat tape to 90 degrees while the herpstat box reads 93.0, wonder why yours is 10-12 degrees difference? cold room?

I have no idea why actually. I just know that it doesn't seem to transfer through the glass very well and anything below that doesn't get it up to 90. Strangest thing. They're checked everyday though a few times a day w/ a infrared gauge. Could be that I keep my house kinda cool. No idea though. Temps are spot on and they eat. Just what personally works in my situation. It is weird though...

[snakesRkewl]

As long as it's holding steady temps the difference between the two should mean anything

[stevepoppers]

So should the glass/uth read 92 degrees, or the temp after the substrate?? I use aspen...

You should be measuring the glass underneath the substrate. The substrate could be 92 degrees on top, but that could mean that the glass has to 100+ to get the top of the substrate that hot.

V1L3 DiaL3cT, is the heat source getting up to the temperatue the herpstat says?

And everyone knows you can calibrate the herpstat to display the correct temperature, right?

It's not a big deal, just much further off than anyone expected.

[Shadera]

My probes go directly on the cage floor. (Or tub floor, in my racks - I place the probe onto a piece of tub plastic and tape that directly to the heat source.)

Herpstats are good. I use a couple Pros for my racks. Helix is a wonderful t-stat as well, very easy to use and pretty darn reliable. I use one of those on the incubator, and used to use them on the racks until I went with the Pros just to get rid of some of my cord traffic. IME with them, they're on equal ground, but the Herpstat did require much more tweaking whereas Helix is pretty much plug and go.

It may seem like a big chunk of change up front, but cared for properly these things should last for a very long time.