Dimmer as backup to Thermostat?

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BTW, cool name for your normal I watch A LOT of Pokemon thanks to my 2 & 5 yr olds.

Thanks, My daughter and I are huge pokemon fans and we named our snakes after them...Ekans is another snake pokemon (spelled "Snake" backwords )

Ok, I know it's only been a few minutes, but the more I think about it, it *should* work.

Do you have a multimeter? If I were trying something like this, I'd really want to test it before trying it with a snake. BTW, a multimeter would be a great investment. I realized my rheostat was faulty last night with a 30 second test with the meter rather than having to adjust it, wait for the temps to stabalize, test the temp again, adjust it, etc....

Great idea. How did exactly did you preform this test? I have a multimeter.