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Can someone give me their comments/opinions/experience regarding the "Heat Panels" that are for sale these days?
It's a radiant heat panel mounted to the ceiling of the cage, correct? How do you control it? Same as tape? Can you wire them in a series to one controller? Analog or digital?
Appreciate the input. thanks, jsc

I use Pro-products heat panels, hooked up to Ranco T-stats. I love them. I plug them into a power strip, and then into the T-stats. I don't know about running them in series. My snake room is at 82-84 and the heat panels make each cage have a gradient.
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I'm just the snake room janitor

Heat panels heat from above, like the Sun. They heat objects on the cage floor or just below the panel, like the Sun.

Heat tape is like the ground after having been warmed by.. the Sun.

Proportional controllers work the best for heat panels and heat tape, meaning you get the most efficiency and tightest control. All other controllers (dimmers, ON/OFF) work for both as well.

You do not wire heat tape and heat panels into the same controller. That is like having the gas pedal of your car also controlling your neighbor's car. He won't get where he needs to go, or he'll go when he wants to stop.
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Mark

No, I was referring to more than one heat panel on the same controller. Not tape and Heat panel on the same controller.
jsc