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crazysnakeman
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 11/09/2010 : 09:41:49
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Heya,
I've just gone and bought new thermostats to control the heat mats in my royal and corn tanks, a bit of a big investment! They were all on a dimmer switch, so I could manually turn the heat up/down accordingly, however, like I said, I now have proper thermostats!
My question is, the sensor for the thermostats, do you place it slightly above a heat mat? or directly on top of it? As in, if you wanted 33 degrees Celsius at one end of the tank, do you put the sensor on top of the heat mat and set it to 33?
Cheers,
Josh |
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Blackecho
Royal Python Admin
United Kingdom
11327 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2010 : 10:01:01
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Are the heatmats under the tank?
Put the probe on the floor of the hot end along with a digital thermometer probe and then adjust the thermostat until you get the correct temperature on the thermometer reading. |
 
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crazysnakeman
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
20 Posts |
Posted - 11/09/2010 : 15:43:39
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They are in glass vivs, heat matt under the glass, bark chips as a substrate - shall i just rubber band the two probes for the thermometer and stat together and lie them on top of the substrate?
Cheers,
Josh |
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UncleNos
Hatchling
United Kingdom
78 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2010 : 02:19:04
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I've got mine taped to the heat mat on the outside and use a digital thermometer buried in the substrate at the hot end to set the temperature from.
So the setting on the thermostat is a couple of degrees more than the recorded temp in the viv/rub.
Seems to work for me!!! |
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Blackecho
Royal Python Admin
United Kingdom
11327 Posts |
Posted - 12/09/2010 : 09:17:32
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quote:
Originally posted by crazysnakeman
They are in glass vivs, heat matt under the glass, bark chips as a substrate - shall i just rubber band the two probes for the thermometer and stat together and lie them on top of the substrate?
Cheers,
Josh
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New Thermostats
