never heard of salamander thermostats... do you have a link or something i tried googling it but nothing struck me. might want to check and make sure they will work for a reptile enclosure.

i know the ranco and johnson control thermostats are used for other things then keeping reptiles, in fact my old restaurant used to have one in a walk-in cooler. it was set in cooling mode so if it got to warm from going in and out, it turned on the fans and got things down to the set temp.