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Thanks.  I am just sanitising the spare collection bottle and will switch it over.

One last thing for the seasoned brewers out there, I have the heat belt half way up the body of the 'saurus which has me thinking about the heat transfer and general temp of the wort.  Given the conical shape and narrow neck that the collection bottle attaches to, would it be fair to assume that the heat the belt generates wouldn't necessarily flow all the way down and into the bottle itself?

I am just thinking that maybe the temp in the bottle is slightly lower than that of the main vessel where the bulk of the liquid is.  The heat rises and so straight out the top of the headspace and therefore the yeast that has dropped would struggle to wake up?  I am not a scientist by any means so if this logic is flawed then happy to be corrected.

If however my logic stacked up then would I be better to have the heat belt lay on the bottom of the fridge generating radiant heat around the fridge itself to give a more even heat distribution?

Just curious.........