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ESU Thermostats - Pure JUNK!

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I will make thiese brief, as I am quite pissed off.

Basicly I had a ESU thermostat fail, melt a whole rack of sterlites, killing all my moellendorffi, including a morph, and three accliamted females, and some WC. All my WC mandarina, some CB mandarina (that did not belong to me!) and some accliamted mandarina.

So basicly, I wont have any chance of breeding moellendorffi this year.


Others have had the same problem recently.

Screw ESU,
 
Screw ESU THERMOSTATS

Seems we are having trouble finding a thermostat that is half reliable and won't kill our reptiles!

I am considering trying the Big Apple's Proportional Thermostat and see how it goes.

I have been fortunate in that I have been able to "catch" my thermostats when they screw up~!

I do keep a pretty good eye on them, but with summer weather it really makes for a lot of checking.

Sorry to hear about your situation Corey.

Scott Collien
 
Most people whom have a lot riding on a thermostat working properly will put two of them inline in series. It is unlikely that two will fail at the same time, and the secondary one acts as a failsafe.

In my reptile building I have heaters running in the winter months, but the A/Cs are set to come on if the heat begins to rise too high. In the summer months, I have the A/Cs running, but the heaters are hooked up to come on if the temps drop too low.

Hope for the best, but plan for the worst.
 
Last year one of my friends lost about $80,000 in boa morphs because of a thermostat malfunction like you guys have experienced. Soon after his accident I came up with this devise to help prevent this kind of problem.

Click here to read about our safety, shut down switch.

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If this violates the T.O.S. I apologize and please delete this post. I am not advertising for my benefit!! I am just letting these people know that there is a product available for this problem.
 
That looks like a nifty little device. I may have to pick one up. My biggest fear is my thermostat failing. I dont think it violates the T.O.S. as your offering advice (even if you do sell the product). It's good to know their are fail safe devices like that out there.
 
Jon,

Hopefully there is nothing in my TOS that prevents people from being helpful to one another.

Thanks.
 
I know Jeff Ronne offers a double thermostat that is supposed to help prevent just such disasters. I think it is a great idea, but it is like a quarentine tank in the fish hobby. Everyone agrees that it is a good idea but very few people have one.

Steve Schindler
 
I'm definately getting the double thermostat for my snakes when I get their adult caging.

BTW, doesn't Helix or someone make an overheating alarm? Something like a sensor that sounds an audible alarm and/or sends a page if temps spike too high? Something like that would probably be a good idea too.
 
monitored alarm

I know my cricket farm has a thermometer that is monitored by their alarm company. I believe the company is ADT.
 
I know my cricket farm has a thermometer that is monitored by their alarm company. I believe the company is ADT.
 
Yup...my ESU (only six weeks old) failed on me today. I was gone for 8 hours, I came back to it stuck on the "on" position. The temps in my blood cage were 94 degrees on the cold side, 115 on the warm...she was fine. I took her out, put in her in a bowl of 80 degree water (fastest heat transfer is through water) and she is showing no serious signs of overheating. I contacted the company that sold it to me, who referred me to ESU, who maintain (their tech support guy, anyway) that they are unfamiliar with this problem. (This problem potentially occurs in ALL analog thermostates.) Anyway, they won't accept it without a receipt, and Big Apple is sending me another receipt, along with my purchase of their Proportional thermostat. I'll stilll send in the old one to ESU and use it as a fail-safe for the proportional one.
ESU=scary.
-Saul Allen
 
An audible alarm would do some good, but if the thermostat does break, the snakes could be dead while you were out getting ice cream. Hmm... maybe you could hook it up to a pager somehow.

Erin B.
 
You are safe to get some ice cream.

Our system shuts down power to the malfunctioning thermostat as well as sounding an alarm. This = no dead snakes while you are enjoying your ice cream.
 
ALIFE IS ALSO CRAP

I have 7 alife thermostats, 3 of these are now defective. Latest one is 6 weeks old, I just happened to be up getting a drink at 3am and my blood python cage was at 140F


I consider myself very lucky it's still alive and that I caught it failing or I would of woken up to three dead snakes.

If anyone knows of a RELIABLE tehrmostats, let me know as i am not buying alife 1000

3 out of 7 have failed, not what you would call a successsful product.
 
How about Johnsons controls? They have a few more feature than the ranco and are cheaper...And you dont have that pop bottle sized probe you have on the cheaper thermos...I get them wholesale so I am setting up my cages with doubles...
-Matt Graybeal
 
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