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I've just finished building this cage, so it's empty. I've been running some temperature tests. Right now I have a couple 150W CHEs for heat. But with the weather that we've been having here (14ºF outside) I've only been able to record a maximum of 26ºC (79ºF). Normally, I think that the CHEs would be enough to heat the whole enclosure but I don't want the heating ability to be at its maximum all the time, I want there to be some margin so that if bad weather kicks in the thermostat can call on the extra heating power. I will be buying a couple rheostats though to lower the output just a little.
The digital thermometers I use have a probe, so I'll definitely be sticking that in the substrate, I thought I would just leave it lying on top of the substrate fixing the cord with tape as much as possible so that it doesn't get out of place if possible.
Wouldn't the analog thermometers also measure the correct temperature if instead of fixing them to any of the sides of the enclosure I were to leave them lying flat on top of the substrate? How do you guys measure the temperatures? Where do you place your thermometers? Do you just use temperature guns?
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