I just want to post a great review of the new Herpstat 4. I can’t list all incredibly cool things they programmed into it (& I even had to edit this to fit character limit), so I decided I would share how I used it to set up one of my Pseustes cages (photo below).



The upper right has a heat panel w/ probe by the rock on top of the hide basket. It is set to begin warming gradually up @ 5 am for 8 hours peaking at 97.9F by 1 pm where it stays for 3 hours & begins to gradually cool down f/ 4pm to 12am getting down to 77.7F. These gradual changes can be set evenly over a period of up to 10 hours, more like a typical day w/ sunrise & sunset w/ highs in the middle of the day & lows in the middle of the night.



Meanwhile a probe in the lower left is set on “cooling mode” to 70.7F f/ 9am to 9pm & 66.6F 9 pm to 9 am. To attempt to get close to these temps I have a fan pulling warm air out of a warm side vent & a fan blowing cool air into a cool end vent.



Every 5 hours a reading is taken for my humidity targeted between 75% & 85%. If during any check it is below this, my misting system (2 nozzles in center) will go off for 90 seconds. In addition, at 11:30 am & 7 pm, the system will mist for 90 seconds regardless of the humidity at the time.



I had my lighting set to have the LED lights on at 1% at night to mimic moderate moonlight & at 5:30 am to 8:45 am, the light will gradually brighten to 100% where they stay until 6:00 pm & fade back down to the 1% moonlight by 9:15 pm. Unfortunately my LED lights run on a 120v to 12v transformer & it can’t handle the dimming so I need to use straight 120v lights or find a transformer that is "dimable."



Everything I mentioned can be done on one H4 & I came nowhere close to using up the watt limit per output, so if I had more cages this size, I could have them all running the same way.



If there was an award for contribution to the Herp Keeper world, my vote would go to the Herpstat 4 after playing w/ this product for a day!

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• Figured BP folks would like this too - SoLA, Wed May 11 17:29:49 2011
• RE: Figured BP folks would like this too - JYohe, Wed May 11 18:03:49 2011
• RE: Figured BP folks would like this too - SoLA, Wed May 11 18:10:01 2011
• RE: Figured BP folks would like this too - JYohe, Wed May 11 20:52:25 2011
• RE: Figured BP folks would like this too - SoLA, Wed May 11 21:50:37 2011
• RE: Figured BP folks would like this too - kingofspades, Thu May 12 00:06:45 2011
• RE: Figured BP folks would like this too - ohernz, Thu May 12 05:11:49 2011