This is exactly what I was looking for. Thank you for having an actuslly detailed video

Been looking up how to set up PVC enclosures for a few weeks now and yours is one of the most detailed as of setting up heat. Love the content you just got a new sub sir!

Love the coat hanger idea. Instead of zip ties I used heat shrink tubing to hold the probe on the coat hanger. It’s been working great so far and looks a little cleaner

So hard to find good videos regarding rhp installation, but this one is great! Very informative, great tips and suggestions. Thank you for taking the time to share this information!

Zach once again good video you looking like you're getting comfortable go with the flow thanks for the shout-out from the podcast the other night you're the man that's all I can say

I personally will always listen to the advice of a fellow Slayer fan. Great info in this vid!

I’m a little late to the party but this video/helpful comment section solved my probe dilemma. Thank you reptile community!

This is such a great tip! Thank you for sharing!

Nice video bro!  That coat hanger trick is ingenious!

Good info man...it's important to buy equipment like this from a reliable source

Great video Zak!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I wish I would have found this long ago. I'm going to be doing this today.

Awesome video Zak!!! 👏 👏 👏
Super smart of you to use that part of the hanger!

This video saved me so much trouble!! Haha I have the exact setup and didn’t want to wing it, so watching how you did it was sooo helpful!

Just found this video - definitely informative. Cool trick with the hanger, and I may have to try that in my next setup. I had the exact same sort of temp swings in my enclosure. They're 4x2x1.5 and both use a RHP from Pro Heat (Bob is great). I reached out to Dion at Spyder, and he mentioned the same thing - tape it to the exact center of the RHP. I bought heavy duty/all weather gorilla tape and did that. It took a bit of moving the temp setting around, but once I found the sweet spot all was good.

Zip tied my panel up to screen 3 years ago the panel is by far the best panel probe zip tied to branch off a wood piece in enclosure an inch from bottom of enclosure under heat panel runs perfectly with herpstat 6 with the light on ramping and the temperature on ramping and mister plugged all in herpstat with humidity sensor from Spyder robotic works perfectly

I'm currently waiting on my 4x2x2 PVC enclosure to arrive along with my ProHeat radiant heat panel as well for my ball python..I have spent hrs and hrs watching videos on probe placment and installation and hands down I found your method to be the best all around...my only question and I guess thought rather on doing it this way and I'm not bashing our talking bad about you and your way at all so please don't take it as such your way is genius juat a thought I have and hopefully you can answer for me..but with the probe being up high in the enclosure and so close to the heat panel will it make for different temps on the bottom of the enclosure because the enclosure won't have the time needed to come up to the correct temps needed on the warm side with the probe so close to the panel it will reach the set temp much much more quickly and then so what its designed to do and shut off thus by not allowing the bottom to come up to desired temperatures...like I said its just a thought and maybe I'm just over thinking this idk...but none the less great job and fantastic video with great information and insight....

For our probes in our display cage I keep them closer to the snakes level near their hides on the hot side because when I had them up higher I was getting inaccurate temps where the snake actually spends most of its time. I still need to route and mount our probes a bit better since I left them loose with a little wire hanger so I could adjust it’s placement easier so I was getting accurate temps closer to the substrate where the animals spend all their time, now that we’ve got that figured out I’m going to drill a hole lower and use your zip tie method to hold the probes in their permanent position.

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Ok. So I use a ceramic heat emitter in one 4x2x2 pvc and a pro products heat panel on my other 4x2x2 pvc. The one with the CHE keeps temps very well. Humidity also not bad. If I spray it on a Monday and get the humidity up to about 85% on the cool side and 65-70% on the warm side (my enclosures have a humidity gradient as well. I didn’t design it that way. Just happened. But I love that) typically Wednesday or Thursday it could use another spray cause it’s getting low. But it’s not even out of range at that pound it’s low 60% and low 80%. Now. The pro products heat panel. Holy crap. I put it in my other enclosure and set everything up started running it and got temps and humidity up to snuff on Sunday. It’s now the following Saturday. The humidity as not dropped. It’s insane. Temps are prefect and heat panel is awesome. So if you need to save some money a CHE (with a safety cage!) will work. Don’t let anyone tell you they don’t work or you can’t keep humidity up. They work fine. The ambient humidity in my house is like 35-45% and I can keep the humidity above 60% in the enclosure with a CHE no problem. Just needs a little spray down every couple days. Which isn’t a big deal to me because your changing the water every day every other day no more than every 3 days. So spray it down move some substrate around clean up or fix whatever they knock over or pile drive through, take the water dish out and clean it and put it back with fresh water boom done. Should be doing that every few days anyway so no big deal to me. But I’ll still choose my heat panel over the CHE if possible. And side note if you use a Pro products heat panel with a herpstat 2 spiderweb thermostat. The plug for the heat panel kind of blocks the prob plug. It still works. You can still use the probe. But it does push on the probe plug. I’m getting ready to swap the plug for one I bought at Lowe’s that will fit better. DO NOT ATTEMPT OF YOU DONT HAVE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT SKILLS OR SAFTEY KNOWLEDGE. I really don’t want to hear about or see animals homes or people lost to electrical fires.