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Old 04-16-12, 05:43 PM   #11
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Re: Viv heating in a cool room

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Originally Posted by Cam View Post
Well that's true, but I do travel for work, so if a thermostat were to fail it's possible I wouldn't notice or catch it for several days. Just better to design it to be failsafe.

Working with the appropriate wattages V basking temp will be your best fail safe...

I.e. if say a 75w CHE on for 5hrs straight can only ever get the basking temp up to 45-50C max... then in the event of catasthrophic failure while your away as long as your thermal gradient is good, your animal will simply move to the cool spot.

Now you can also piggy back the thermostat onto a secondary mechanical/analouge thermostat placed at the cool spot if your really worried. These types of thermostat measure air temps so if you set them at say 20C then it will shut off when the air temps are at 20C in the spot where it is placed.
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