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Geckonut
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After struggling with dimmers (no good!) and Repti -Temp 500R thermostats and watching my warm hide temps bounce all over the place, I decided to give the Spyder Robotics Herpstat a try, and ordered a few for testing in my terrariums.
Thanks for those here who gave input on these proportional thermostats.
After carefully testing the Herpstat, I'm please to say that I am thrilled with the performance of this stat. Once set up, and after about one hour of stabilization, the Herpstat keeps the warm hide at a very stable temp, with a tight range of just 0.1 to 0.2 degrees! This will undoubtedly have a positive effect on the leos so their temp is not jumping around, hot then cool then hot and so on. So, I LOVE this thermostat and will now buy more for my rack setups and other terrariums I have. Some also use the Herpstat for their incubators and I can understand why. Excellent.
I did notice a very slight discrepancy when checking the Herpstat digital temp readout against a traceable digital temp unit with probe taped at the same location as the Herpstat's....there was about a 0.5 degree difference. No big deal. It is good to know this though, and I recommend checking the Herpstat against a good digital temp unit to see what yours may read out. So, if I want my warm hide to be 94F, I would actually set the Herpstat to 93.5.
I also recommend always using a small piece of masking tape to secure the temp probe level against the surface of your hide to be sure it is giving a true reading of the actual surface temp.
Hope this little beta test was useful for you all.
Thanks for those here who gave input on these proportional thermostats.
After carefully testing the Herpstat, I'm please to say that I am thrilled with the performance of this stat. Once set up, and after about one hour of stabilization, the Herpstat keeps the warm hide at a very stable temp, with a tight range of just 0.1 to 0.2 degrees! This will undoubtedly have a positive effect on the leos so their temp is not jumping around, hot then cool then hot and so on. So, I LOVE this thermostat and will now buy more for my rack setups and other terrariums I have. Some also use the Herpstat for their incubators and I can understand why. Excellent.
I did notice a very slight discrepancy when checking the Herpstat digital temp readout against a traceable digital temp unit with probe taped at the same location as the Herpstat's....there was about a 0.5 degree difference. No big deal. It is good to know this though, and I recommend checking the Herpstat against a good digital temp unit to see what yours may read out. So, if I want my warm hide to be 94F, I would actually set the Herpstat to 93.5.
I also recommend always using a small piece of masking tape to secure the temp probe level against the surface of your hide to be sure it is giving a true reading of the actual surface temp.
Hope this little beta test was useful for you all.
