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Convenient Programming Guide to get started. Highly functional and reliable
The programming instructions are written for those without an IT background. I was able to get them working quite easily. Use them to control a couple of heating pads for my jumping spiders (the temperature probe measures the temperature and turn the heating pads on and off as needed. It’s nice because I have them set up to provide a daytime temperature and a lower night time temperature. Very happy with my purchase. Highly recommended!

Simple
Got this for my ball python’s temporary enclosure. The instructions are worded a bit weirdly, and I did need to look up a video on how to set it up. There’s a good amount of videos on youtube explaining everything, and if you’re new to reptile keeping like me, it’s really helpful.Works well, it’s a simple on-off style one for a very good price. My only wish is that the instruction manual was more helpful, and that it had two probes instead of one, given that it has two outlets.

Hard to set up, AWESOME to use!
This is a pain to get set up, but once you do, you’ll love it! I use it to change my leopard gecko’s tank temperature for a warmer daytime temp and a cooler nighttime temp. Here’s what I can tell you:1. If you prefer Fahrenheit (this defaults to Celcius), change that first to make your life easy2. If you don’t hold the set button down after you change a setting, it will not save3. If you take too long to enter something in, it will time out and nothing you just changed will be saved.4. Write out the settings you want on paper first, in the order they appear in the settings menu, then you can just plug them in one after another, hold down “Set” and you’re good to go! The picture is of my sequence, which I did at 7:36pm, to set the controller to 90F from 8am-9pm and 72F from 9pm until 8am.I still check the thermometer I have in his terrarium periodically, just to make sure I don’t have a fried or frozen lizard, but so far, it’s extremely accurate and consistent. I’ve been using it about 3 weeks. It’s so much better for your reptiles’ health to have a consistent schedule! This is a great value.

Useless when the programming button stops working
I bought this product to use as a thermostat for an infrared heating lamp. It was going to get four stars from me, because there are things about this product which are fantastic. It takes temperature accurately, you can customize everything from the temperature differential to calibration and beyond, and the screen is nice and big. Since I’m obviously not writing a positive review for this anymore, let me go through why that is.first, and most importantly, the button I press and hold to bring up the programming menu no longer does a thing. What that means in concrete terms is that absolutely nothing can be changed. I can’t adjust the temperature, I can’t change the temperature differential, I can’t set the time if I want to use the dual temp setting, The thermostat has now become utterly useless. This happened after losing power.The terrible user guide, which I’ll be getting into next, claims that there is a capacitor which will Provide enough power for the thermostat to remember all of the settings for approximately 12 hours of outage. Since plugging and unplugging the pointless brick of plastic I apparently spend my money on doesn’t make the programming button work again I suppose there must be a capacitor in there; but it didn’t maintain any of my settings for me.That user guide, before it only would’ve lost this product a star and is not currently anywhere near being my main complaint, but it’s still worth mentioning anyway. It is difficult to comprehend because it reads like a bad translation of something written by a person who probably has never seen the product in their life. It is interpretable though, but doesn’t provide any means of troubleshooting potential issues with the product.

I have been using this thermostat with 2 heat lamps to keep my pet hedgehog warm for almost 5 months now. It’s been very reliable and gives me peace of mind to know that my pet will be warm enough, but not overheat.The instruction manual was decent, and I was able to google a video tutorial on how to set it up (just to be sure I understood all the functions correctly).It did take a bit of experimenting to calibrate it with my digital thermometer, and to figure out where to place the thermostat probe for the best results. The main issue was that the probe takes a bit of time to pick up on changes in temperature – slower than my digital thermometer anyways, which will check temperatures every 10 seconds.The other downside is that the display is permanently on and bright red (see last photo). It’s great for checking the status at night, but bad for nocturnal animals like hedgehogs. I wound up hanging the thermometer from under the table where my hedgehog enclosure sits. That way, she isn’t affected by the glow of the display when she’s up at night.For my purposes, I was aiming for a range between 24°C-26°C in my hedgehog’s enclosure. I now set my thermostat’s ideal temperature to 25.5°C (with the probe in the middle between the two heat sources), and for the lamps to turn on when it drops past 0.1°C of my desired temperature. That way, the far corners of the enclosure never drop below 24°C (which I monitor with a separate digital thermometer).Once I figured out the optimal set-up for the thermostat and probe, it’s been great! Another plus is that the device remembers its previous settings after it’s been unplugged or after power outages, so you don’t have to worry about redoing everything.

Once you figure out how to get it working, it works great! But getting it to work was a real struggle I had to watch YouTube videos. Instructions could be better.