Quote Originally Posted by L.West View Post
How big is your enclosure?? What are the measurements of the your RHP in inches. You basically want the RHP to heat only half the tank especially if you are heating your room to 80 to begin with. You will need a thermostat to connect to the RHP. Set you desired temp and check the surface temps with a temp gun to tweek it to be exactly the temp you want.
My enclosure is 36x12x12 and the recommended RHP is a 7" x 24" x 1" 50 watt panel. Since it’s my basement I would like to cut back on running the heat. My wife has been scratching her head about having to run the heat at a constant 80 just for one little snake

Quote Originally Posted by SDA View Post
I am going to go off the common placement and one that Bob at pro - products recommends. You place the RHP on the warm side of the tank and place the probe of the thermostat on the cool side. You can either string the probe through the vents and down the side or drill a hole near the bottom and place it there. You want it slightly above the floor to prevent the snake form sitting on it or relieving itself on the probe. It is fine to have it dangling down on the side of the tank.

What you do is dial in the temps so the cool side is where you want it. The idea is then the warm side will get to the temp you want and the cool side will be the ambient you want. You might need to adjust it to find the best compromise between hot and cool side and that is best adjusted using an infrared temp gun to read temps and adjusting the thermostat to where you need it.

You really would not need the UTHs any longer but if it gets really cold in the winter you might want to keep the warm side one for belly heat. It won't hurt anything and as long as you have it controlled via a thermostat it will not overcook your snake [IMG]file:///C:\Users\043881\AppData\Local\Temp\msohtmlclip1\01\clip_image001.gif[/IMG] I would remove the one from the cool side or just unplug it.

You also should not have problems with the led if they are installed on the back side. you should be able to install the RHP more toward the front of the cage and it will still work as intended.

Good luck and as long as you have one of those IR temp guns to dial in temp reading on the thermostat, this won't be an issue.
Awesome! Exactly what I was looking for! I spent some time getting my temps right ‘before’ I purchased my snake so now that I have one and thinking about an RHP, I want to make sure I can dial in these temps in a ‘speedy manner’ and w/o struggle. So would I try and dial in an ambient temp on the cool side around 79-80 and assume the hot side would be the right temp?
Bob also mentioned adding some foil faced insulation under the cage to help avoid heat loss. Seems like a good idea.