Under tile heating (Trader?)

[keelow]

Built my olive python box and it's sitting at work.

6x3x2 I'd like to know how much heat tape to put under the tiles and what wattge is needed, i know someone built a huge olive box with under tile heating and can't remember if it was Trader.

Cheers

Kee

 

[herptrader]

Actually it was HerpTrader but trader is my wife.

The dimensions of my enclosure are 2000 x 600 x 700 - pretty similar.

With 20/20 hindsight I would have used about a meter of ELE07S2-330 (330mm wide 70 watts per metre). I am about to add a second basking light. Currently I have a 50 watt halogen but it did not get warm enough. Having a basking shelf under the basking lights would also be something they would appreciate.

If you have not yet had a look at http://www.herptrader.com.au/TiledEnclosure it will show the basic tiling technique. I have taken photographs to showing how it can be done with a probe thermostat but have yet to put it together as a web page.

 

[herptrader]

Also I recently did a temperature map of the enclosure using a data logger. I have 24 hour temperature graphs for 3 locations along the floor and 2 on the basking shelf. If you are interested PM me your email address and I will send you the Excel spread sheet with the graphs.