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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by n/a[/i] [br]The great day has arrived. And so has my first dimmer stat. Shahi has had a heat mat up till now, but it was planned, as he got older, to switch to infra-red lighting. The bulb and guard is already installed - all we need now is the dimmer stat. Right. I've already got my head round stats. Plug into mains. Heat source plug into thingy that looks like extension lead. Probe into viv. In my innocence I thought a dimmer stat wouldn't have a probe. Just thought I'd have to plug light fitting into stat and I'd be away. I wuz wrong. There's a probe. And a nice diagram of probe dangling between light fitting and cold end. Okay. I can do that. I can even drill a hole for the probe. Hang on, though. If I want the probe to register the temp of the area where Shahi is likely to be, ie the floor (well, when he's not dangling from the ceiling or doing gymnastics on his bulb guard) then the probe is going to have to be pretty near floor level. Right, okay, no problem. And the temp's going to have to be adjusted to allow for the probe being the requisite 9 inches away from the light source ... oh boy, rocket science ... never mind. I've got a temp gun. It's Shahi's feeding day. This is the plan. Feed snake, have everything ready, and once he's fed, put his feeding rub in the next room and let him rest for a minute or two while I drill the hole and install the stat. Fine. Shahi strikes again! I even video him on my phone. Shahi: Oo, Lil, am I going to be on Youtube? Lil: Sorry, mate, I can't even get my head round Photobucket. And don't talk with your mouth full. Shahi: Wosh wrong wish talking wish my mouse full? I put him out of earshot and install the stat. Now, as I have said, the diagram shows the probe hanging neatly between light source and cold end. My probe has been scrunched up in the box and it's curly. Aaagh. A splint. A pencil will do, with cable ties. The house is infested with cable ties. but can I find the dratted things? No, of course not. Rubber bands, then. It's still hanging at a wonky angle. Sigh. Twiddle it a bit on the outside to a slightly less wonky angle, and tape it, on outside of course. Adjust viv, renew water bowl (which is now full of sawdust) and replace a slightly annoyed Shahi. (Boring in that rub, Lil.) Remember to draw his frilly net curtain on one side of the viv (he likes his privacy.) Well. That's it. I think. Now for an afternoon of fussing with the temp gun every five minutes ...[:)] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.