Here are some pics of one of my older set ups that I built. Don't mind the vision cage that is being stored on top (I use to think you had to keep animals in big glass tanks or vision cages when I was younger). The side view shows a dimmer and timer as well as the Expanded PVC siding.

What I do is I first turn on the heat tape with no thermostat so that I can dim it to the hottest exceptable range without getting to hot. Then hook it to a thermostat. This will prevent the thermostat from allowing to much power and bringing temps really high. This happened to me twice when I did not use a dimmer. The thermostat would allow the heat tape to pulse to its highest setting and heat up the cage way to hot.

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• To all those that Provided Ideas!! - grnpyro, Mon Jul 4 01:38:45 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - a153fish, Mon Jul 4 06:16:38 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - grnpyro, Mon Jul 4 10:02:03 2011
• Thnaks for the info! n/p - a153fish, Mon Jul 4 10:09:18 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - KcTrader, Mon Jul 4 09:12:16 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - pyromaniac, Mon Jul 4 10:03:44 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - grnpyro, Mon Jul 4 10:24:26 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - denbar, Mon Jul 4 12:13:21 2011
• All thread credit to Beaker30 - grnpyro, Mon Jul 4 14:08:06 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - grnpyro, Mon Jul 4 10:57:56 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - RossCA, Mon Jul 4 23:20:53 2011
• Of coarse I don't mind - grnpyro, Mon Jul 4 23:41:29 2011
• RE: Of coarse I don't mind - RossCA, Mon Jul 4 23:52:13 2011
• RE: Of coarse I don't mind - grnpyro, Tue Jul 5 20:15:20 2011
• RE: Of coarse I don't mind - RossCA, Tue Jul 5 20:43:44 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - KingDome, Tue Jul 5 00:10:05 2011
• Bed Liner Contents?? - grnpyro, Tue Jul 5 09:41:49 2011
• RE: Bed Liner Contents?? - KingDome, Tue Jul 5 23:00:13 2011
• RE: Bed Liner Contents?? - grnpyro, Wed Jul 6 08:22:52 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - Jlassiter, Tue Jul 5 01:55:28 2011
• Nothin like adjustability - markg, Tue Jul 5 16:05:20 2011
• insulating sides......... - DMong, Tue Jul 5 16:57:41 2011
• RE: insulating sides......... - Steveoinlvnv, Tue Jul 5 19:20:01 2011
• RE: Nothin like adjustability - grnpyro, Tue Jul 5 20:12:53 2011
• RE: To all those that Provided Ideas!! - Austin_baker, Sun Jul 17 10:15:26 2011