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View Poll Results: Which one do you recommend
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Herpstat
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Helix
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12-26-04, 12:28 AM
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Member
Join Date: Oct-2004
Posts: 119
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Herpstat vs Helix DBS-1000
Which one do you recommend and why? What are each ones pros/cons..
Last edited by lucky8926; 12-26-04 at 12:34 AM..
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12-27-04, 08:10 PM
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Super Genius
Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Southwestern Ontario
Age: 49
Posts: 6,292
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Never heard of a Herpstat, I use Helix model DBS-1000 (6 of them) and love them all. They are by far the second best investment I've made in the hobby.
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12-27-04, 08:30 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Posts: 4,768
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Ditto what mykee said except I have 2 not 6. What can you tell us about the Herpstat.
Cheers,
Trevor
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12-27-04, 09:32 PM
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Member
Join Date: Apr-2003
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Age: 37
Posts: 5,322
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Whats the first best investment you've made? Id love to know 
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Adam
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12-27-04, 11:28 PM
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Join Date: Jul-2002
Location: Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,355
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Never heard of HerpStat, but I swear by Helix. I use the DBS-1000, and have yet to find fault with it.
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12-28-04, 12:32 AM
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Super Genius
Join Date: Nov-2002
Location: Southwestern Ontario
Age: 49
Posts: 6,292
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A diamond mine in South Africa.
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12-28-04, 01:58 AM
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Join Date: Aug-2002
Location: Manitoba
Posts: 4,971
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Those specs look pretty good to me!
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12-28-04, 05:18 PM
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Member
Join Date: Dec-2004
Location: Central Virginia
Age: 70
Posts: 146
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I've heard the helix were expensive and since I only have a couple of corns I found something cheap. You may not beleive this but I used a waterbed thermostat. I got it for $19.00 on ebay. I don't like the way it makes the infrared light flicker so I found a Repti Temp 500R from Zoo Med. I haven't tried it yet but got it for my next enclosure. It was only about $15-$17.00 and has 2 recepticles for devices.
I got it along with a cool thermometer/humidity gauge combo from Petdiscounters.com.
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1.1 Corns, 0.0.1 W/C Black Rat snake, 0.0.1 W/C Rough Green snake, 1.5 Pekin Ducks, 0.1 GSD
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12-28-04, 10:48 PM
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Member
Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 85
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Danny,
Be careful of that thermostat from Zoo Med... I have read countless posts of them going bad.. Also dont get the probe wet or let it be able to be drun in the water bowl.. They do not have a transformer to reduce the power from 120v do the probe is to be considered a "live wire",
-matt
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CBB Herps and Heating Supplies
YES! I ship to Canada
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12-29-04, 11:03 AM
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Member
Join Date: Dec-2004
Location: Central Virginia
Age: 70
Posts: 146
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Thanks Matt. I have the probe duck taped to the side so that it can't move. Just the end is exposed. I figured it had to be better than a waterbed control, even though they work pretty good, since it was designed for reptiles.
I'll keep an eye on it.
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1.1 Corns, 0.0.1 W/C Black Rat snake, 0.0.1 W/C Rough Green snake, 1.5 Pekin Ducks, 0.1 GSD
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12-29-04, 11:20 PM
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Member
Join Date: Mar-2004
Location: West Virginia
Posts: 85
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Good deal just dont want ya to have fried snake for dinner....
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CBB Herps and Heating Supplies
YES! I ship to Canada
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