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RE: Incubator question?

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Posted by: PHLdyPayne at Fri Jul 6 18:26:46 2007   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by PHLdyPayne ]  
   

unless your incubator is a walk in room....rather waste of energy to use a space heater, especially when it gives such a wide fluctuation, dries out the air, and if kept in a very humid environment, could short out.

I have used ceramic space heaters in reptile rooms before, to keep the over all room temp relatively steady, but had other heat sources to maintain basking areas for snakes. The space heater was just to counter act poor insulation in the townhouse I used to live in, without jacking up my heating bills to ridiculous amounts over the winter. I heated the one room to maintain normal room temps and left the rest of the building at a cooler temp that was easier to maintain without having the furnace on 24 hours a day.

I suppose you could connect a space heater to a proportional thermostat (ie helix) to better control it, but again, not the best method to maintain incubator temps.
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