Heaters Just Won't Stop Turning Off?

[bigsnakegirl785]

So a problem I've been facing since the weather's been cold (below 70F) is my space heaters randomly shutting off all the time.

I've been using one specific heater, not sure what kind is but it pushes heat out the front and turns. I initially had it plugged into a power strip where my ball python's heat lamp, my 2 VE-100's, and my Herpstat 2 were plugged in. I'd come home just about every day to the power strip shut off and nothing else plugged into the power strip being on. I'd restart the power strip and everything would be ok for a few days and do it again. It would be so bad I'd turn the heater on and within seconds it would shut off again in front of me, requiring me to restart the power strip yet again.

Getting tired of this, and worrying about the health of my thermostats, I unplugged the heater from the strip and put it in the only other available power outlet, which is the one in the bathroom. All was fine and dandy for about a month and then I woke up one day to the heater off yet. Again.

I tried changing the setting to a lower setting, it worked for a few weeks and then -bam- it shut off again.

Then the biggest problem came along when it failed on me on one of our coldest nights. I woke up at 6 am and checked up on them. I found the heater was off yet again, and the room was in the low 50's, and Cloud's enclosure was in the low 60's. I turned the heater back on, and it took 8 hours just to get into the 60's in the room. Then it took all day to get back to where it needed to be.

So I said, well this isn't working guess I better stop using this one. We bought a brand-new radiator-style oil-filled heater (it's electric, no emissions). This new heater couldn't even maintain the temperatures that my old heater was able to get to on the highest setting, so it was worthless.

I switched those out and tried my mother's radiator-style heater, which heats the room the best. Well, after only a day I came home from work to find the heater had shut off.

I'm at the end of my rope, I don't know what to do at this point. Why on earth can none of these stupid heaters work???

We have a monitor heater heating the trailer, but it's worthless as well. You turn up the settings to 80F and within minutes it says the room is 82F and shuts off even though the room might be barely 70F. With it set to 74F, the room stays about 65-68F, there's no way I can get that thing to heat warm enough to keep the snake room warm.

We're looking around for someone who can install a wood stove for us, but who knows if that will happen before spring, because we need a platform installed AND a chimney.

I just fed everyone today, because they're all almost 2 weeks late because of this fiasco, but at this point I may just have to stop feeding everyone until this issue can be resolved.

Is there anything I can do to keep my snakes warm?