Oil Heater and Thermostat Questions

Hi All,

I have a few questions if someone can help me, please.

The temperatures in tent are way too low, so I'm buying a 500w oil heater. (Which is fine for the size of my tent).

The one I'm buying is only cheap, and just has a basic manual thermostat (twist to set to power to 1-2-3)

Everywhere online says you should get a thermostate plug for the heater to plug in to and then the temperature probe goes into the tent and the temperature can be set.

I have a few questions about this;

1) can I plug an oil heater into a thermostat that already has a manual thermostat built in?
2) if you get the thermostat, what temperature do you set the heater to? I'm guessing the highest so the heater can get up to any temperature set by the thermostat?
3) are they safe to have next to the wall of your grow tent?
4) can I put it on a double thermostat and have it control my heatmat and oil heater at the same time? If so, where would you place the temperature probe?

I would really appreciate it if someone could answer my questions and I'm sorry for all the questions. I'm new to this

Many Thanks.

A few large heat mats on the floor wouldn't suffice? Whats your setup like? How big is your tent? What is the day and night temps running? Light source, LED?

Each one of those is 100 watts, could lay on the floor, waterproof, durable, safe. Set plants on them if you want. It wouldn't eat up floor space.

That is a more commercial grade one, costs more too lol

Just spit ballin ideas.

The heater you mentioned would definitely have a recommended distance from any flammable surface.

Here is my set up;

• 0.8 x 0.8 x 1.6m grow tent
• Viparspectra LED 300w
• 5" RVK Extractor fan (with speed controller) + Carbon filter
• Tent vent for passive intake
• Root!t 40w heat mat (with thermostat)
• 40w tube heater (with thermostat)
• Automatic humidifier (with humidistat)
• 7" oscillating fan

GGrowing in an un-insulated shed.

Lights on temperatures - 18-25c
Lights off temperature: 14-18c
Humidity level: 60-68%
(I live in England, so the weather isn't that great).

This is why I need an oil rad, as the tube heater done nothing, and I can't fit a longer one in as my tent big enough.

The oil radiator I bought is only Height39cm-Width14cm-Depth26cm, so it won't take up much floor room.

I've bought some Mammoth 100mm heat resistant Aluminium tape to stick behind it onto the tent wall. Just an idea lol

has anyone tried this before?

Much sense is made of your heating needs after reading your posts.

It seems like insulating would be my first step as opposed to throwing energy at the problem.

They do use materials like cement board behind wood stoves.

I would put a piece of masking tape on the wall so it's no longer reflective, that fucks with the readings from an IR temp gun. Then use an IR temp gun to monitor the wall temperature and run the heater. I would also be concerned since the wall is not a ridgid structure that it could blow inward against the heater, so lets not allow that. I would probably cut a piece of cement board, even the 1/4 inch stuff and put it against the wall to protect it.