And a weird thing happened with the dimmer i bought. I have been playing with it and thought i had it almost at the sweet spot (a little less then half way up) and i bumped it up just a tiny bit and came back after a half and hour of so and the prob that i put on the glass above the heat mat said 107. Now after playing with it I'm back to almost at the right spot.
The dimmers do require frequent checking, I am using them on my QT snakes but I have a Helix on my collection and when you get to that point, a good t-stat is the way to go