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27-Mar-08, 03:11 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender:  | | |
I think i got a dud but i got home today and checked my enclousures as usual and my bhps hot spot was sitting at 47 degrees!, i have a thermostat prob going through the wall on the groun inside the hide on his hot spot and the thermostat light was still on.... my thermometre probe which is right next to it read 30 degrees
my bhp was still sitting on the hot spot and thankfully was a loaf of bread, so i took him out and grab a hide and hes now in that next to me... is there anything i should do... he feels very hot but he was still sitting on the spot? he ate yesturday
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27-Mar-08, 03:13 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jun-06 Location: CQ | | | | What bulb/ceramic wattage are you running to get temps that high?
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27-Mar-08, 03:17 PM
|  | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | Having the thermostat probe inside the hide will shield it from the heat of the globe, thus making it hard to control the temperature accurately. Perhaps this is where the problem lies?
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27-Mar-08, 03:37 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | | | its a heat matt
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27-Mar-08, 03:39 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | | really worried about him, 47 degrees cant be good, and when i got him out and put him in a hide on my bed he came out about 3 minutes later and was diving at me from about a metre away
he missed twice so i put a cloth over his head and put him in the enclousure (it had cooled down and i removed heat matt etc from underneath) then he was still striking at me from inside his enclousure,
really worried for his health 
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27-Mar-08, 03:40 PM
| | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | How do you know it was 47 degrees if the thermometer said 30? What model is the thermostat?
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27-Mar-08, 03:47 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | | its a b1 thermostat, the thermostat was set to 30 degrees... the thermometre read 47
i called urs and they said send the thermostat back and we will replace it, i really dont care about replacing a stupid thermostat, im absolutely in love with that black head 
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27-Mar-08, 03:56 PM
| | Roadkill Subscriber | Join Date: Aug-05 Location: Western Sydney Age/Gender: 25 | | | | OK, and the thermometer probe was right next to the thermostat probe when taking the readings? If that is the case then it certainly sounds as though the thermostat is faulty.
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27-Mar-08, 04:04 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | | yep, i called david vella and he said he would keep and eye on him, its a matter of just waiting and hoping
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27-Mar-08, 04:04 PM
|  | Lewy & Sue Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: Jimboomba,QLD Gender: | | | | well it not necessary faulty just turn it down till u get it to the right temp i have 2 B1s and both are set to different temps on the dile but heat the spot up to the same so don't go buy what it says on the B1 go buy what your temp is reading
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27-Mar-08, 04:14 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | | | mate thats why i have a thermometre i have done numerous checks with it to get it at the right temp and wat i set it at is generally between 28 - 30, even if someone did run by weat the thermostat says, i dont think anyone one would buy em if they got that high?, there mean to max out at 35 anyways i know im never going to be able to comfortably use a microclimate thermostat again...
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27-Mar-08, 04:25 PM
| | Lewy & Sue Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: Jimboomba,QLD Gender: | | | | ok cool well i have no prob with them and i no heeps of people who use them
That is a shame as thay are a good unit IMO but u got to do what u got to do good luck with it
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27-Mar-08, 04:33 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: sydney Gender: | | | | np sorry if i seem fired up not the best afternoon for me i have the stress of my godam exams which i have to study for and now this :*(
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27-Mar-08, 04:38 PM
| | Lewy & Sue Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-07 Location: Jimboomba,QLD Gender: | | | | That's cool i didn't think u sounded fired up but i no how it feels when thing just don't go as planed especially when it cost good $$$$ like a B1 and then it not work to your satisfaction
Lewy
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27-Mar-08, 04:42 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Oct-06 Location: north coast NSW Age/Gender: 24  | | | Out of the many microclimates I have had, 3 have died recently. 2 got zapped/fried (by a direct lightening hit that incidentally blasted the powerline transformer into smithereens with bits 200m away down the paddock  ) and the other stopped dimming. It was on my ackie enclosure - luckily they didn't care about it being a little warmer.
Good luck with it!
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