Quote Originally Posted by lillyorchid
I did that. It was working fine for a few hours. I noticed that the light went out and my UTH was no longer warm. Pluged a light in, it worked. Pluged UTH back in - nothing. I found out that it fried? my UTH since my UTH was only two days old and it had died after I plugged the dimmer into it. So right now I'm running off a heat lamp, till I get my flexwatt and therm.
Sounds to me like your UTH was defective. I used a dimmer on a UTH for my gopher snake for quite awhile and never had a problem with it. All that being said, if you've got flexwatt and t-stat on the way, then it's a non-issue anyhow. I consider dimmers to be a "better than nothing" solution if you can't afford a t-stat.