thermostat trouble

[K1LOS]

Well, thanks to the help from some people in my electrical wiring post i finished wiring up my thermostat, That was easy enough. Now i don't think its working properly...

my incubator is a ghetto styrofoam cooler with a human heatpad lying in the bottom, and a raised shelf for the egg box. Unforftunately, because i had trouble with the wiring, by the time i finished it all, my leo laid her eggs literally an hour later. I didn't get time to set the thermostat correctly. And i can't keep opening the incubator and playing with it!

Now i'm not sure if it's even working properly, because the light on the heatpad only comes on if i pass a certain spot that clicks on the dial. It clicks when i turn left or right passed that spot. To the left the light goes off, right the light goes on. Looks like a 15 dollar on/off switch with a dial!

The thermostat is a ct60a honeywell. Does anybody else use this thermostat? It measures the temperature on its own, correct? It is meant to be used with electric baseboard heaters. Do you know how i can test the thermostat effectively?

Any help would be greatly appretiated. Right now it looks like i'm gonna be up all night beside it monitoring it...

Thanks

Geoff