Just an update. I built a wood box to hold (2) 6 quart sterilite tubs for 2 corns I will be getting in the next couple of weeks. I used flexwatt to heat and spliced in a wall dimmer switch. The entire setup cost me about $40 total including the Accurite thermometer/hydrogometer. My opinion on thermostats is that they are nice if you have the money, but a dimmer switch with a good thermometer works just as well. It just requires a little more monitoring and tweaking. I plugged it in last night and it took me about a half hour to tweak it to the right temps and it maintainded the temps well after that.


I'll take some pics tonight and post them.