they are discontinuing the heater and the old cone. shop around for it. Ambient wants 40 for it, Amazon and Scaled Instruments want 27.30.
I wonder how efficiently the official Davis heater kit works compared to my Davis foil insulation with reptile heater tape? I have one cone set up for winter with the heater, and another without for the rest of the year. At $27, I might just get one in case my snake tape croaks...
[EDIT] OK, I found the heater on Scaled Instruments, but it is just the heating element. I have the insulating cone, or can get a second for $5. The third part is the power supply. I see a brick on one end, but what's on the other? I don't see where the power hooks up to the heating element. I know some of you have the Davis cone heater. What's *really* needed?
[EDIT 2] I found the manual. In addition to the heating element and cone, there's a 50' heater cable included, and the power supply. One end is the 11V plug and a brick transformer. The other end is the "power unit" which connects the 50' wire from the heating element mounted in the ISS to the 24V 24W power from the transformer. There's also a switch, power indicator light, and what looks like an inline fuse.
So all you *really* need, is the heating element, the insulating cone, and a 24V 24W power supply to connect directly to theater element.
Is the 24V output from the power supply AC or DC?