What's your ambient temp? What kind of bedding and how thick? I run my T-stat at 99 and it gives me a hot spot of 88 in a 74 degree ambient room. If I switch from paper towels to aspen, that hot spot can shoot up to above 99 because of how the aspen traps the heat. This is using a Herpstat 2 and FlexWatt.


Fiddle with the space between the enclosure and table, the tape and enclosure, and your substrate before you decide to buy something new. You really don't want to run the tape much hotter than 100 degrees.