PVC cage heat with UTH / Radiant Heat Panel or BOTH? Cool room.

[dav4]

I just don't think your ambients are coming from the RHP at least not 100% a few degrees maybe but not ten. I am not doubting you at all it just makes no sense.

If you place you hand in the enclosure not under or close to the RHP (with the RHP on) and move your hand toward it until it is directly under the panel there is a point where there is a marked and drastic temp change. Do you agree? Every panel I have seen this is exactly how it works. If it were heating the AIR the air beside the panel would be the same so the change would be gradual not dramatic. See what I am saying? Do you have a light in your set up?

I have flourescent lights installed in the enclosure but hardly turn them on, so they aren't a factor. I just took some random measurements with my IR temp gun. The back corner of the enclosure below the ventilation slats, which is farthest away from the RHP, measured 73F on the inside, the rest of the walls on the inside of the enclosure measured 75-78F. The outside temp of the enclosure walls is 67F...the temperature of the room (measured with a digital thermometer) is 62.5F

Again, I'm not saying that the RHP is DIRECTLY warming the air. The air is being indirectly heated by the mulch, hides, and enclosure walls that are being warmed by the rhp. Using your reference to cooking an egg in the sun and taking it a step further, how hot would the air temperature be 6 inches above where the egg is being cooked if you placed a 10 gal aquarium over it? How hot was it in your car on the hottest day of this past summer? How hot does it get in your attic on a hot summer day? I'm guessing the answers to each of my questions would be more then a couple of degrees warmer then the outside temperature. The heat is being captured and contained within the enclosure instead of dissipating into the surroundings...this makes sense to me.