Quote Originally Posted by Bodie View Post
I use pro product RHPs in all my cages. They are great and I highly recommend them. I do have a couple of questions..... First what type of critter are you keeping in the cage? Second when you say it now maintains 87-88, is that your hot spot or ambient temp? 88 is hot for the ambient. Four of my cages are the same size as yours. My RHPs are my sole heat in every cage i have but one. That one would be my BP cage. I use the RHP for ambient (81) and a uthratherm heat mat for the hot spot (89). If i tried to use the RHP in my 2ft tall cage to create a hot spot of 89-90, my ambient would be very close to that temp also (which would be too hot) do to the fact that the cage is tall. In my ETB cage, because the perches are so much closer to the panel I can keep an ambient temp of 83 with a hot spot on the top perch of 89. Also all of my RHPs are 60 watt

I have 2 ball pythons. The temps I gave were for my hotspots. My ambient was low 80s. You think that’s why the panels went bad? Because they were running on 100% for several days? It’s aggravating because I emailed reptile basics and specifically asked them about that Prior to this build. They told me I would get what I was looking for from the one panel. Now I’m probably going to have to return my herpstat 2 and buy a herpstat 4 for uth too. Do you think the snakes will be alright for awhile? Temps right now are low to mid 80s. I bought a temporary uth to set up until I can get ahold of pro products