Water heater thermostat - Page 2

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this is the complete unit unless you already have the bracket, the one you showed was the replacment disc . it would be much easier to use a wafer Thermostat unless you know a heating engineer who could help you HTH

Why bother with wafer  when for  3 more  bucks  you can have this:

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&resnum=0&q=repti+500r&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=16025023162487603154&ei=9qWvS__wCIKC8gaK7vDbCw&sa=X&oi=product_catalog_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBIQ8wIwAg#ps-sellers

There is no comparison,   this  thermostat beats any wafer,  any water heater thermostat  and any thermostat used in styrobators.
   Using  this one  in  my home made bator   my temperature fluctuated  back  and forth .5 -  .7  F    and most importantly  hold steady  in room with daily swings of 10  Degrees.

Wafer needs  frequent replacements and is affected  by  everchanging  athmospheric  pressure.

Anoyjer great  feature  about repti 500  is  it has a probe  you can insert in a wiggler  if you use one,  or you can  place the probe  on the top of the eggs,  or any  spot you choose.

The whole thermostat is  outside a bator  with nice and easy to adjust dial.

There is no better  thermostat  for less than a hundred  bucks,  and it is absolutely sufficient for  incubating purposes.

Yea, that thermostat would work too if you are using less than 500 watts. I use 1800 watts so I have not got to test one. It does seem to be a good product from a good company but it has not been out that long so its reliability is still yet to be proven.

Zoo Med Laboratories  Repti REMTE Sensor - RT-500R   is  been out for  more than 4 years, I have mine  3 years  works perfect.

So  let's not split hair  here, reliabity is not an issue.   You have reliability  issues  with wafers and most  styrobator  thermostats

despite they've been around for years.

Wafers need to be often replaced  and also  they fluctuate widely   when weather changes.

LG  thermostat  is  peace of  garbage. 

Also  how many people  besides commercial  hatcheries uses  incubators  consuming  1800 Watts  a piece?

Do you  have  walk-in bator?

Sorry you don't like my opinion but it is a relatively new product that has got good an bad reviews. When it did come out, I do not know but it became the talk here an other message boards in the beginning of 2009. As I said I have not tested it. But it comes from a well known company, its just relatively new.
As for me mentioning the 500 watt max, I though it may be useful information. Yes my 1800 Watts is more than most but people build incubators in the 500 to a thousand watt range all the time. I don't know what the OP is building.
My 1800 watt incubator can bee seen here http://cmfarm.us/fridgebator.html an here http://cmfarm.us/Cam_2.html
The heat source cost me less than $10 an uses less than that same $10 to run a month. I think I'm a bit tall to stand in it.

I've done the water heater thermostat and wish I had never tried it.  I would have much been better off buying the wafer.  The ether in the wafer expands and contracts much quicker than the metal tab in a water heater thermostat, thus providing less temp flux.  Water heater thermostats rust up quickly in an incubator causing them to stick.  I never had a successful hatch with those.  I switched to a wafer and started having 90-100% hatches.  Don't fool yourself like me, get a wafer.   Thats my 2 - cents.

Just built an incubator in the UK myself using this thermostat kit

http://www.velleman.co.uk/contents/en-uk/p64_mk138.html

Works well, but you need to know how to solder.