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Converting Light to UTH

HoosierHerper

HoosierHerper

Josh
I have a UTH from Fluker's and it their website claims that the hottest it goes is 100 degrees... I know that is way too hot for a corn...
But I don't have the money to spend on a GOOD thermostat right now...and don't want to waste money on a cheap reptostat from the pet shop, so here is what I can do, let me know if you think it would work for now...or if you think it'll burn my house down :)

I have the lamp.
I am going to screw in a lamp dimmer to the socket.(1st pic)
The dimmer then has the new socket in it that I will screw in this "socket-to-plug converter". (2nd pic) Then I could plug in my UTH to that plug, and use the dimmer on the dimmer socket to control the UTH temperature. If it will work, temporarily, it will save me some $$ right now...the two pieces together are less than $10 at Walmart.
Has anyone done this before? What are your thoughts?

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Completely retarded? You tell me...
Thanks,
-Josh
 
Holy crap, I have seen that in the past and totally spaced out on looking it up now!
Thanks for the reminder!!!!!
This will be my little project Friday :)
 
So this seems to be the thing alot of people use, so I may go ahead and make it look kinda cool if I am going to use it for a while with one of these:

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Thank you!

http://www.3drose.com
Or I went to Google, shopping, then typed in "Snake Light Plate"...it's $11.75...and I think the site is one where you can give them a pic, and they'll personalize one...so you could even put your own Corn on the plate....kinda neat :)
 
I was going to suggest looking at that rheostat thread but looks like someone already covered that...

I just wanted to say, though that your signature made me burst out laughing!
 
The thread about the do it yourself rheostat is easy and it works we bought the stuff to do 7 tanks and we didnt spend more then 30 total on parts!
 
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