Flexwatt and thermostats

[kitedemon]

wow, Kitedemon, I think that you are clearly over reacting on your part here. It is very clear that the product that they sent you for testing was damaged during shipping and from what I can see you acknowledge that, so why would you even bother to test a product that was clearly damaged? the correct response I think should have been " hey, this product was damaged during shipping and is unusable for safety reasons. please send me another or I cant fairly run the tests I need to properly evaluate your product, rather than BASH it! This is the second AMERICAN heat product made by a major manufacturer that you have deemed "not worthy ". To be honest , that makes me question your qualifications? I am by no means a thermal engineer but even lil Ole me can tell a damaged part when I see it. You always talk about heating equipment and thermostats and thermometers being unacceptable at +/- 2 deg swing, Let me remind you that these are living creatures that we are talking about, not industrial equipment that needs to be calibrated to the thousands or it will fail. Living creatures have whats called adaptation! Heck even at night temps in nature drop + 10 or more degrees. Ball pythons come from Africa where temps can easily reach into the 100's during the day and at night can reach temps that if not properly protected the human body can suffer Hypothermia. That"s a difference of +/- 50 deg. in one night , yet these living creatures adapt. There is not a place on this earth that is not controlled by man that holds a tolerance of less than +/-2 deg. I think your job as a tester has got your opinion a bit askew from nature and reality and I don't think you purposely mean to give bad advice but I personally think you may have reached the point where you are no longer relevant to the herp husbandry topic! Nothing is good enough for you, which leaves newbies very confused on their options!

Once again I have no idea what you are speaking of?

I said nothing about Flexwatt.

Royal pythons are NOCTURNAL... they are underground during the day so spouting about day temps in the sun is silly. They do not bask.

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Is the the AMERICAN made product you are speaking of?

I love my RHPs. I do a huge amount of work with radiant heaters. I own three, I don't like people telling others that they will do things they don't.