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Has anyone used or have any experience with the GCS four cage thermostats. I have been thinking about using them over other forms of thermostats due to the fact theat they have four seperate circuits each with its own sensing probe, and it cycles through each circuit every few seconds. For all that use herp pro thermostats on multiple cage systems how do you accurately control the cages that the sensing probe isn't in. I have cages stacked four high and if I used one I would only be able to set the probe in one of the cages. In my opinion that would nopt accurately control the other three cages. Any comments would be greatly apreciated, Todd

Todd,
I plan on trying these as well. Alot of people will use one thermostat on a 4 cage stack and use the same sized heat pad,heat emitter etc. But i feel the cage temp will vary. I like to know the exact temp of each cage.

>>Has anyone used or have any experience with the GCS four cage thermostats. I have been thinking about using them over other forms of thermostats due to the fact theat they have four seperate circuits each with its own sensing probe, and it cycles through each circuit every few seconds. For all that use herp pro thermostats on multiple cage systems how do you accurately control the cages that the sensing probe isn't in. I have cages stacked four high and if I used one I would only be able to set the probe in one of the cages. In my opinion that would nopt accurately control the other three cages. Any comments would be greatly apreciated, Todd
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Thomas Jones
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That is the exact thought I had on the practice of using on thremo for multiple cages. I mean all heat sources are electric and will vary slightly on the amount of heat that each puts out so with only one heat sensing probe you would get pretty inaccurate readings, especially in the top cage that will get a little bit of heat from the bottom three cages. Anyway, thanks for sharing your thoughts, todd