Lamp Thermostat ?

[BillinIndiana]

Its actually the other way around, the room gets too warm.. I think I have this figured out now..?

The Day/Night bulbs get it too warm in the tank when the room's temp goes up. So, I'll get rid of those and add the CHE hooked to another T-stat using one side of he double-dome and stand I already have. Then I'll look into a maybe an LED light or something low watt and non-heat emitting for illumination in the daylight hours.. Night time might just have to be dark without a lamp.? I guess, which sucks because that is when she moves a lot.

[Jabberwocky Dragons]

Its actually the other way around, the room gets too warm.. I think I have this figured out now..?

The Day/Night bulbs get it too warm in the tank when the room's temp goes up. So, I'll get rid of those and add the CHE hooked to another T-stat using one side of he double-dome and stand I already have. Then I'll look into a maybe an LED light or something low watt and non-heat emitting for illumination in the daylight hours.. Night time might just have to be dark without a lamp.? I guess, which sucks because that is when she moves a lot.

We use Herpstat 1's to control the heat lamps on all of our bearded dragon enclosures. We use halogen bulb flood lights which are dimmable and produce a nice hot spot. The light intensity changes are barely noticeable.

LED light's are great for supplemental lighting. I've found that even CFL bulbs output too much heat for an enclosure that has the perfect cool spot. Home Depot has a reasonably priced 40 watt LED that puts out a fair amount of light (and supposedly lasts 50 years... we'll see).

[BillinIndiana]

I need to work on the Hot Spot also... Right now we're just going to worry about the ambient.. We have the hot side/cool side pretty much under control.. Probably going to have to switch to the Flucker mini UTH.. The one for 10-20 gal. tanks takes up about 2/3 of the bottom.. So are difference in temps are only about 5 degrees from Hot hide to Cool Hide.. That was checked with a PE 2 heat gun.