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Excellent Temperature Control
We bought the Exo Terra thermostat 600w to help give our terrarium more constant temp. We use it to regulate a Ceramic heat bulb for extra heat to maintain day temps. It is easy to set desired temps with the dial. It has a great display that is nicely visible from across the room. It has separate night and day temp programming which is extremely helpful for our geckos. We are able to achieve more constant temps and avoid big spikes from hot to cold. My only knock on this thermostat is that it uses a light sensor to tell when it is daytime not a clock or timer. So you need a light source to tell it when it is daytime. This is fine if you have a basking species but not a nocturnal one. The photo sensor in the temp probe is not sensitive enough to pick up natural daylight. We added a small desk clamp lamp with a low wattage bulb with a timer and we have achieved perfect environmental temps. I love the day/night temp programming functions, great display and overall look of the unit. It is well worth the money spent. If i had a basking species I would give this 5 stars. The photo sensor issue is the only concern we had. I would still recommend this product to help keep your terrariums at a constant temp.Read full review
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Outstanding Thermostat for the Price
Firstly, let me say that you will not find the features available on this thermostat on ANY other in its price point. That said, there are features on this thermostat that aren’t really explained that is important to reptile keepers. The most important is the fact that it can be set up to 140 degrees or so. Now, before you freak and say “ you’d never need that high of temps....”. This feature comes in handy in snake racks. Snake racks have a long strip of heat tape that winds its way around many levels to heat the underneath sides of the tubs within. So, instead of placing the probe in a tub to monitor temperature, we place them directly onto the tape itself. Keep in mind that the tape may need to be upwards of 120 degrees to heat the tubs and substrate to low 90s. Many thermostats, especially hydroponic thermostats (which, incidentally are around this price point for a good one) will not read that high and so are pretty useless for snake racks. The draw back to using this probe in this way is that you have no day/night differential. So you’d obviously set both day and night temps to the same setting to keep a constant hot spot for your snakes.
Another great feature is the pulse proportional mode. This is the absolute best way to keep consistent temperatures. So if you have a very specific temperature range that need concise and precice control, this is your mode. Incubators, for instance would benefit greatly from pulse proportional control, as the t-stat will not drive the temp up several degrees past prime and shut off until temps fall back down several degrees past prime the other way before turning the heating device back on—essentially creating a consistently inconsistent four plus degree variant.
About the only feature this doesn’t have that the ones used by professionals does, is the alarms for problems that may occur with power issues or faulty heating devices. And, let’s face it, alarms can be had for far less and can be placed in many different areas within a vivarium or rack. And, if you’re around to hear the alarm, you’ll probably have noticed a power outage and will be scrambling to react to that while cursing the alarm that’s stating the obvious.
Also, if you’re intending to heat multiple heat sources, you will have to buy multiple thermostats. If you buy one of the more expensive, professional thermostats, you can run as many as 6 devices with only one thermostat. This can be good and this can be bad, depending on how you look at it. If the device fails, all six racks are done. If your six racks are heated and controlled with separate thermostats, you could divide your tubs so that you can place the snakes whose rack is dead into another rack for as long as it takes to remedy the problem. On the other hand, having multiple racks ran from one thermostat is a remarkably lean and clean way to roll. And if a spare is available, you do not need to topsey turvee the racks; you simply plug you spare in and connect the probes already in place into the working thermostat.
All in all, this thermostat is impossible to beat at this price point and, frankly, unless you’re way more than a hobbyist who has hundreds of specimens for which to care, these thermostats will work extremely well. And, you can buy a spare and still be money ahead.Read full review
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Fantastic thermostat
A thermostat should always be used when heating any animals enclosure to ensure your animals dont over/under heat.
This thermostat keeps my basking and ambient temps exactly where they need to be automatically and with no guessing work. You can set day and night time temps for animals that benefit for having a night time temperature drop.
The only SLIGHT down side is that when it dims the heat source, the thermostat makes a very slight buzzing noise that is impossible to hear unless you are very very close to it. (All dimming thermostats do it because that is the noise of it limiting the current so there is no dimming thermostat you can get that wont have that.)Read full review
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Eco terra thermostat
For the money you are getting a thermostat that has the functionality of thermostats that cost much more. The only thing that I don't care for about it is the day and night settings are controlled by a light sensor, so this thermostat may not work for every situation but I am using it for an incubator so it works for me and does a wonderful job controlling temps. Overall I am very satisfied with this product and would recommend it to others as long as the day and night settings wouldnt be an issue .Read full review
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Great product
Works great no problems and it holds the temp within one degree on my snake tank.
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great thermostat
I bought this because if the pulse proportional function. Other brands are 40 dollars more with the same feature. I made an incubator out of a wine cooler an opted for this thermostat. I am very pleased especially with the digital readout.Read full review
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Works well, but day/night modes have limitations
Works as designed. But be aware that the day/night modes are controlled by the presence or absence of sufficient light. It would be even better if it had an alternate mode where it could be controlled by a timer.Read full review
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Exo Terra 600watt
I have 4 at the moment and love them! I have one controlling my incubator.
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worth a look
this is my new goto thermostat. Does everything you need to keep the temps. where you want them.
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Runs my cage that's what I needed
Thank you for the product 🙂
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