Proportional vs. straight thermostats.

[Adam_Wysocki]

You are wrong, I sell on/off thermos and proportional thermostas my man.

I never said you didn't. All I said was that you have "a vested interest in people buying what you're selling". Is that not true?

What are you saying im trying to tell them not to buy a thermostat as all? HHHMMM yup thats it...

I don't see where I said that at all????

I want whats bnest for my animals and my customers.

I have zero doubt about that and I said nothing to the contray. From the reviews I've seen your service is outstanding.

I also have oil filled heater on the Johnsons and the reading from my raytek are within 1 degree of the setpoin at all times.

Ranco and Johnsons are the same thing? I've never used a Johnsons and never said that I did.

You cannot measure the heater man you have to measure at the proble where the temps are being red

The probe is attached directly to the heater with duct tape for this test.

.....Oh and one more thing, I am looking at the Helix dealer manual right now and the 1500 watt module is a on/off model!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Model number 1003 add on is not proportional!

Mine was purched from Helix as a proportional and I can watch the led get dimmer and brighter just like on my basic systems. I don't have a dealer manual to dispute your claim, but I know what kind of thermostats that I run.

You also have to take into consideration the size of the element being used if a pro thermo is used on an oil filled heater and it lowered the temps the heater will take a considerable amount of time to cool the oil. But is usine a 11" peice of flexwatt the time will be reduced many hundred times over. Different "tests" are going to come out with different results if you do not have a baseline and control group. Imm not tryin to agure with ya just tryin to get my point across...Have a good one.

With the probes taped directly to the heat source there should be no difference between oil filled heaters, heat tape, or whatever. The test is to measure the units response to a direct contact temperature. I didn't do a control group or a baseline because I'm not conducting a scientific experiment. It's a practical test of two competing products.

I hope that helps clear some things up???

-adam