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Thermostat Questions

Joejr14

Joejr14

Grand Bubble Burster
Okay, I'm at the point where I need to order up some supplies to make my homemade incubator. I know I'm being cheap, but I really don't want to spend $140 on another Herpstat or a proportional thermostat. I know I should, especially for incubation purposes, but I'm curious if anyone has used anything else and had good results.

There's the Big Apple Herp BAH-1000, the Ranco, the Alfie thing that you can pickup at Petsmart, and a Zoo-Med Repti Temp.

Anyone had any experiences with any of those---good or bad? If it comes down to it, I'll order another Herpstat because it's becoming more obvious that I'm going to need another rack soon anyway.....
 
Joe, I have the Zoo Med, and I don't think it is as reliable as it should be. There seems to be quite a wide range of temps that it allows, perhaps due to the fact that it is an on/off thermostat. Just my $.02, but I wouldn't trust any eggs to it....
 
I have owned about five or six BAH 1000's. After the second one in four months crapped out on me I bought a bunch of the Ranco thermostats on Jeff Ronnie's site. The $100 one. I haven't looked back.....and it's been several years of 24/7 useage.

Chris
 
I think the Zoo Med would allow too wide temperature swings. Like possibly even 5 degrees F either side of your set point. I'm running three of them right now.

Nanci
 
No experience with incubators yet, but I've read of people using the ZooMed 500R successfully in homemade incubators.
 
Ya cheap *&^%$#@. :grin01:

There will be plenty of room in my Spyder Robotics Herpstat-controlled NS incubator if you need it. I've tested it in swings from about 65* - 75* and it kept to a couple of tenths of a degree over or under the 82.5* setting. And the Herpstat will be 100% dedicated to the incubator; it won't be controlling anything else...
 
Roy Munson said:
Ya cheap *&^%$#@. :grin01:

There will be plenty of room in my Spyder Robotics Herpstat-controlled NS incubator if you need it. I've tested it in swings from about 65* - 75* and it kept to a couple of tenths of a degree over or under the 82.5* setting. And the Herpstat will be 100% dedicated to the incubator; it won't be controlling anything else...
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There ya go Joe! You can't get anything cheaper than free, and you don't even have to use your own electricity!
 
I use Alife thermostats. I've had 2 crap out on me out of about 20. I don't trust them by themselves so most of them are double back ups...as in I plug one into the other and set the second one a few degrees higher than the first so if the first one goes out I can tell with the second and it'll shut things off before it becomes too much of a problem. So far so good but I do eventually want to upgrade...just got to find a place that sells them in bulk.
 
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