I set up a friend's BRB enclosure with a Hydrofarm because he didn't want to spend the money on a nicer t-stat. It's been about two months and I went to check on it and the Hydrofarm is not putting out any power to the 100 watt CHE that's plugged into it. It still senses the temp and the light turns on when it's supposed to, but no power going to the plug. I swapped it out for another cheapo t-stat (Inkbird off Amazon) and it worked fine. So two months for a Hydrofarm before failure isn't so great.

I have two Herpstat 2s and one Herpstat 4 and swear by them. Only thing I could see to make them better is to have networked ones with separate thermometers for each channel (one to set the temp of the element, the other to monitor the temp in the enclosure) which would eliminate the need to have an extra cheapo thermometer in the enclosure to monitor. Then to have it all networked through wifi for monitoring would be amazing. I can see what's happening in my house, turn on lights, unlock or lock the doors and control the heat/ac from my iPhone nowadays. It would be really cool to be able to monitor my herps that way.