One thing that I find kinda funny is people spend hundreds if not thousands on snakes and then want to skimp on the controller that could mean life or death for all the snakes in the rack. I have never used the thermostat in question but to be so cheap they had to use cheap materials to make it. Price doesn't necessarily mean it no good but I prefer to use top quality thermostats to protect my animals. When you figure in the cost of the animal replacement / vet bills if your t-stat fails it seems like 80.00 bucks or so more is nothing to get a top quality t -stat.