Under belly heat

[Subdriven]

So I've been switching all my balls to underbelly heat with flexwatt. Was wondering what a good actual temp should the bottom of the tub be? I have a on off thermostat and it cuts off when it sits at 93. But drops to mid to high 80's till it cuts on.

[mpkeelee]

I used to use a reptitemp 500r which turns on and off, they work but have to be in a room where the temps don't change or u will lose ur mind adjusting it. If the room stay at a steady temp u can set it to turn off at 92 and they will go back on at 90.5-91. Do u have a thermometer under the warm hide reading the surface on top of the UTH?

[Subdriven]

Yea. It measures the bottom of the tub on the back side of the heat. Just feel it stays off more then on.

[kitedemon]

What is your room temp? Sometimes on off types can swing the way you are describing due to slow probe response not just a longer range around the set point, This is often made worse by cool room temps as the tub cools faster than the probe and add that to a slow sample of the unit to the probe and you have a 5-10 degree swing.

Typically I'd never want to see higher than 92, 94 MAX, anywhere inside the tub. I find I loose a degree to the tub itself so I have my thermostat set for 91 and it delivers 90 inside the tub which is about what I am looking for.

[snake lab]

A good thermostat is worth its weight in gold

[mpkeelee]

A good thermostat is worth its weight in gold

This is true, that's y I got rid of my lil cheapo and everything is hooked up to a helix or herpstat.

[Subdriven]

True. I saw the BAH-1000-Thermostat from big apple herp and sounded good at first. Looks like I'll be buying a better one.

[robeyeshua]

i use the bah 1000 exclusively - it works fine for a on/off tstat -