I'm not sure where to start since there is so much misinformation in this thread. However, suffice it to say I have had Herp Power units since they came out about 5 years ago. Yet, before I purchased my units I asked many questions to Big Apple.



First, to address the gentleman who indicates that he had the old style units before the Herp Power came out and that the Herp Power is a replica of that unit. This is absolutely incorrect since I found out that the old unit that was once sold by Bob Clark was produced from a completely different company in Europe and was never digital proportional, it was pulse proportional and an unsatisfactory failure rate which is why no one has seen them on the market for the last 7 years.



Now as far as the digital vs. analog setting mechanism. Both the Herp Power and Helix are digital thermostats but the control mechanisms are different. Helix uses a digital interface while the Herp Power uses a analog interface for setting the temperature.



Ask any cook if they would like to set their flame for cooking by digital setting or if they would like to set it by an analog device that you simply turn. Which one is more precise? Do $10,000 Viking stoves have digital settings or analog settings? The reason they have analog setting devices is because while digital setting is great when it comes to consumer devices it simply does not have the capacity to be fine tuned like an analog dial can.



Moving past the strange analogy I used for grills/stoves you might take note that all of Europe uses analog settings on their thermostats for animal husbandry. I guess since they average about 10 years ahead of the U.S. in animal husbandry technology their must be something right about why they utilize the analog setting controllers.



Oh, and please don't by into the fact that digital thermometers are more accurate and somehow better than analog thermometers. That is simply not true. I'm not against digital thermometers but a good analog thermometer can be as good or better than a digital.



I hope I helped clear up some of the misinformation.





Winston

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