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Old 07-14-16, 01:43 PM   #21
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Re: RHPs

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Originally Posted by bigsnakegirl785 View Post
I honestly prefer my heat on the left rather than right side (I'm a leftie), but ultimately it doesn't matter which side you put it on.

Of the three orientations you spoke of, I'd probably push it slightly to the back. I'm not sure what angling it will do, and more heat will hit the walls if you push the whole thing back rather than to the side, since more of the heat panel is getting closer to the wall lengthwise than in the width. That said, you're probably not going to have a significant amount of wiggle room. My 120 watts have maybe 4"-5" of clearance on either side from the front and back walls (they're 2' wide), so not sure how much of a difference it would make, especially if the 160 watts is slightly wider (haven't looked).
Putting the heat on the right is just to break the norm. So many enclosures I see have their heat on the left. I mainly think it's because we do everything from left to right so it comes naturally. I like to go against the grain, so right to left it is!

That was my thinking too on the orientation. It allows much easier placement of the probe as well as heating up more objects. As far as the clearance, Bobby told me all that matters is in front of the lens. The panel can be tight against the wall as long as nothing on that wall sticks out less than 6" from the panel lens.

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I use heat bulbs in the day with thermoses and ceramics at night. it is much more economic and give the snakes somewhere to bask in the day


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Heat bulbs don't penetrate the way that RHPs or UTH's do, I'd much rather try and mimic the sun as best that I can in the way that it heats, which is infrared. As I said earlier, I will mimic daytime with LED light bar and my computer emits blue lights from it's fans and such which will give that "moon" glow at night.
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