rack system

[Mashup]

I've always been curious how they do racks in realations to heating mats and eletricity? Do they just install a buckload of eletric outlets in the room, or do the just buy an enormous heatpad and puton the back end of the container(no matter how stupid that question seems, or do people just put thermometer in the room as shown in the picturehttps://ball-pythons.net/forums/showthread.php?93787-New-snake-room-in-progress

[chairman]

Rack systems typically require temperature controlled rooms. You must heat or cool the room to a temperature suitable as the cool side of the snake's enclosure.

Hot spots in a rack are created with flexwatt (or an equivalent). Racks can be heated with a single piece of flexwatt run along the back, a single piece of flexwatt woven through all of the shelves, or a piece of flexwatt per shelf (and usually plugged in to a power strip).

Each rack will require its own thermostat. The heat probe is placed between the flexwatt and a tub in the top third of the rack.

Flexwatt (and thermostats) use very little electricity, so multiple racks can typically be plugged in to a power strip. A normal room should have plenty of outlets to run a couple racks.