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Importance of Temp Alarm on Thermostat

Nanci

Nanci

Alien Lover
I was in the living room and heard one of my Herpstats start to alarm! They are set to alert me if the temp is (I think) five degrees over or under the set temp. This stat is running two ten gallons, side by side. Each ten gallon has a probed thermometer. The stat probe and the temp probe are attached to each other, and then attached to the center of the UTH, inside the viv, under the substrate.

So I look and see that the stat temp and thermometer temp are reading 76, and the temp probe in the viv next door is 90 and rising rapidly. The thermostat is at 100% output. I've seen this before!

Sure enough, upon lifting the hide, the probe has become dislodged, and I have to move a fat, digesting snake out into the "cold" so I can clear away aspen and re-secure the probes. I put everything back together and Chipmunk heads back into her REALLY toasty hide. The temp eventually peaked at 92.8 before it started cooling back down.

Now if I _hadn't_ had an alarm set, I might have still caught it in time, since both vivs have probed thermometers with digital read-outs, right by the TV, and are checked several times a day. (This group does NOT have remote monitoring like the racks do).

With no alarm, and no always-on thermometer reading, who knows if I'd have caught it before the UTHs got up over 100...
 
The set-up.

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Fitting you'd post this now. I just spent most of today (while watching football :)) researching and ultimately deciding on a herpstat 4 to run my set-up. It'll only hurt once (about $355 worth), but I'll be much more at peace when I'm away from my babies.
 
I, too, just invested in a herpstat 4 to run a few of my racks and love it. I set my H/L alarms to be +/- 5 degrees F. It's definitely worth it considering it could mean the difference between being safe or severely burning your snakes or even causing a fire.
 
If you haven't seen it yet, check my thread on Remote Temperature Monitoring. I LOVE being able to check temps, any time, any place.
 
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