Help! Herpstat2 Heating up.

[ckuhn003]

Cant edit my post. What I meant to say is for channel one, if the setting is 95 and your probe and gun are reading 80 and the unit isn't running at 100% power for that channel, then you might have a bad channel. Again as I said above, I would reposition your probe and make sure it is contacting the heat tape and cage floor 100% and master reset the whole unit and set al your parameters again. If you get the same reading, then you might have to RMA the unit back to Spyder Robotics.

Oh and I'm assuming you are taking all your temp readings with the gun from the inside floor of the cage and not the top of the substrate as that will give you lower readings obviously.

You're post above is what i'm leaning towards being the issue....

I'm using two UTH's because I was unable to get the cool side above 74 degrees. After asking around on this forum and talking with a breeder, it was suggested I incorporate another UTH on the cool side and regulate it at a lower temp (i.e. 80) using the Herpstat2.

All temp readings are being taken w/ a temp gun on the cage floor because I have not added substrate yet.


On the bottom of the left side of the PVC enclosure is a small glass area for a UTH which makes it easier to transfer heat unlike the opposite end which is pvc.


This is a brand new Herpstat2. After leaving it on all night, Channel 1 is still around 80 even though it's set to 95 and Channel 2 was around 104 and its set to 100. Both were at 0% which still makes me think it's a Channel 1 issue
since the setting of this Channel doesn't seem to working regardless of which probe is plugged into the unit. I taped (electrical tape) the "wire" right under the probe to the UTH and secured the UTH to the bottom of the enclosure w/ foil tape.