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GCS Habitat Control System

jfmoore Nov 12, 2003 01:49 AM

A while ago, someone asked about the proportional controllers made by this person. Something markg said below made me remember something funny about this product when it was made by someone else last year. This wasn’t the reason they didn’t work for me.

I was using these controllers with Pro Products heat panels, all of which have little orange indicator lights. With Helix or Big Apple proportional controllers, these lights are either full on or off. Of course, the temperature of the panels varies constantly when they are on. With the controllers made by the predecessor to GCS, the orange lights pulsed continuously when the panels were on. At night with the room lights off, it looked like the mother ship was landing. I seriously wondered whether someone with epilepsy could be affected by the flashing. At the very least, I wondered what effect it might eventually have on all the snakes.

-Joan

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gcsreptiles Nov 12, 2003 08:32 PM

They are supposed to pulse like that. They are not an on/off type thermostat. They are pulse proportional temperature CONTROLLERS. The micro processor will make the controller pulse faster the further away you get from your set temperature, slower as it nears the set temp and will stop pulsing completely once it has reached the set temp. That is what makes them so accurate (within .5 degrees). They're not made for lights, for obvious reasons, but for heat tape, panels, ceramic heat elements, etc.
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Gene Richardson
GCS Reptiles

gcsreptiles Nov 12, 2003 08:36 PM

n/p
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Gene Richardson
GCS Reptiles

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