RHP Heating?

[dkatz4]

I have the 40W in the middle of a 30" enclosure about 14 inches tall. the room is between 60 to 65 degrees most of the time. At 100 percent the area directly below the actual panel is easily int eh low 80's, on warm days i bring the power down a little bit, but there is a very definite line where the "footprint" of heat stops and the temp drops about 5 - 7 degrees. its sufficient for now b/c the tank and snake are small, but when its time to upgrade to a 4 footer i'm certainly going to need another 40w and put them side by side to maintain a comfortable overall ambient temp.

[chrid16371]

Well experimented with the RHP, and it only goes up to 80°. Looks like I will have to rig up the heat tape for hot side.

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Are you using half a t8 with 40w? Right now my room is 62 degrees in a 28x24x12 cage and mine is 91 hot 82 cool. Idk how its only 80. Where is your thermostat probe? Where is rhp mounted and what are you using to take temps?

[Jon14]

It's half of my boaphile(2'x2'x1'). Thermostat probe sitting directly on bottom (testing without substrate), and that is what I am using to read temps. RHP mounted on ceiling of course.

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[Jon14]

I will test with substrate this weekend when I have more time. Planned on setting up heat tape anyways just incase, so I got that setup today.

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[chrid16371]

It's half of my boaphile(2'x2'x1'). Thermostat probe sitting directly on bottom (testing without substrate), and that is what I am using to read temps. RHP mounted on ceiling of course.

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Put your thermostat probe right on floor under the rhp and set to 90 and wait, thats exactly how I have it and everything is perfect. I'm just testing right now and I have substrate. I think substrate may hold heat better then the cage itself but 80 seems rather low even without substrate. But if you put your probe on cool side then 80 would be good. But 80 for hot spot seems low. Just doesn't make sense to me. If you have probe hanging in air you will need to set the thermostat temp higher. Idk what boaphile uses for air flow but if there's a screen or vent completely cover it with PVC or something bc it will let a lot of heat out. I will also say that with my ve-300 it took about an hr or a little longer to get to temp, the set point alarm went off once and then when I hit the enter button twice it started heating again and made it to the set point where its sitting at now.

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[Jon14]

There isn't much for opening, just a slight gap by the door. I had the probe directly under RHP. Well I plan to add a decent amount of substrate so that should help. When I tested it I taped the air gaps and left it for a good 4 hrs.

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[chrid16371]

There isn't much for opening, just a slight gap by the door. I had the probe directly under RHP. Well I plan to add a decent amount of substrate so that should help. When I tested it I taped the air gaps and left it for a good 4 hrs.

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I would try with substrate and if it doesn't give you the results you want the only thing I could think of is a faulty rhp. Never heard of that problem from reptile basics but could happen. I have pretty much the same conditions as you but my cage is 4 inches longer and I'm having no problem, only difference is I'm testing with substrate and acurite thermometers with probes and also temp guns.

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[Jon14]

Have the newer style acurite thermometer and temp gun arriving monday.

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[chrid16371]

Have the newer style acurite thermometer and temp gun arriving monday.

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Good, I would set it up just like your about to put a snake in. I even have my hides in mine and inside my hide is 89 and probe is 91, I bumped it up to 91 bc my hide temp was 87 so I wanted to raise it a little. My cool side bounces from 82-83 now so I'm thinking since the acurite reads to the whole degree that it's at about 82.5 so it makes it bounce back and forth, its not constantly just every 5-10 mins it changes. Inside my cool hide is 81 now. Like I said you should be seeing similar results as me since are conditions are very similar, if you don't see changes after some more testing definitely call reptile basics and explain what's going on and I'm sure they will help you out.

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[chrid16371]

Oh and something else you can try since you don't have your snake in there is plug the rhp right into the wall and use your thermostat probe as a thermometer, maybe some how the thermostat is holding back on the power supplied to the rhp. I wouldn't do this if your snake is in there but could be a good testing method to try to figure out where the problem is.

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