Microclimate Thermostats - Dimmer or Pulse?

[NSavage]

This may have been covered elsewhere and i apologise if it has but i'm wanting to know what the difference between the pulsing and dimming microclimtae thermostatsis? can both be used for ceramic globes?
I also thought i saw one somewhere that had two probes and two outputs on it. Am i dreaming?

[feral]

at this time of night u prob are dreaming lol
sorry wouldnt have a clue

[krusty]

that is a good question ,i dont know but would like to find out to.

[dee4]

It's as it says, that the dimmer reduces the wattage keeping the power on all the time to the heat source, and pulse pulses the power pretty much like your standard thermostats but constantly. If anyone is going to run ceramic I would suggest a dimmer.

[CodeRed]

Dimming thermostats will work with lilght globes, heat mats and ceramics. But the pulse proportionate ones are only good with ceramics and heat mats.
They both come with one probe only.

[NCHERPS]

Originally Posted by CodeRed

Dimming thermostats will work with lilght globes, heat mats and ceramics. But the pulse proportionate ones are only good with ceramics and heat mats.
They both come with one probe only.

As Codered said, the Pulse pro's are for any non light producing heat source and the dimmers are for use with any type of heat source like Dee said.
Personally I would go for a Dimmerstat, they are more versatile.

Cheers Neil

[NSavage]

Dimming it will be then thanks. Another question though; how much of the probe on these thermostats has to be in the enclosure? can you drill a hole and just have the end part of the probe protruding into the enclosure or all of the black part of the sensor probe? hope this makes sense otherwise i'll try and explain a bit better...

[Sdaji]

The temperature of the sensor controls the switch, so ideally you want the whole probe right in the area you want to keep at the constant temperature. Where you put the sensor depends on the type of enclosure and they way in which you want it to work.

[NSavage]

Originally Posted by Sdaji

The temperature of the sensor controls the switch, so ideally you want the whole probe right in the area you want to keep at the constant temperature. Where you put the sensor depends on the type of enclosure and they way in which you want it to work.

ok so even though the sensors look a lot different to the metal ones i'm used to you still have to put the whole sensor in the enclosure for it to work?

[dee4]

That's correct, you don't want the sensor picking up outside temps so it needs to in the unit.