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Hoppy
at Wed Apr 28 07:26:03 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Hoppy ]
I use timers for my lights. My lights are under cabinet type fluorescents. I use under tank Flex Watt heat strips for the heaters 11” x 24” for each 4x2x16” cage that I am heating. The heat strips are controlled by slide dimmer switches, the type you can use to plug lamps into (this is just a contained rheostat.). I use indoor/outdoor digital thermometers to check my temps, but they do not regulate them. I use this simply to choose the setting for the dimmer. So with the dimmer setting the hot spot at 92 degrees and that cool end of the cage at 80 during the day with the lights on, I get a natural cool down when the lights go off for the night, just as if they would in the wild. The hot spot of 92 degrees stays as is, but the ambient cool end will drop by several degrees, the amount of heat in which the light produced, which is about 5 degrees of ambient temperature.
I have picture and information on the set up posted on my website (I know this sound like a broken record, but I really did put a lot of info on the site and just recently updated it LOL) so you can go see what I am talking about. Also all the items I used were from Home depot and very inexpensive. It may not be the super high tech stuff that is out there today, but it is functional and reliable.
I hope this helps.
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com
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What I use.................... - Hoppy, Wed Apr 28 07:26:03 2004