I use a 1500 watt space heater in my reptile room plugged into a ranco thermostat set at 80 degrees. It works beautifully. The room stays at a constant 80 degrees and the whole setup only cost me about 80 bucks....well worth it. And another thing...if your gonna use two different sizes of flexwatt your gonna have to plug the 11inch into its own thermostat output and the 3 inch into its own thermostat output. They have different wattage outputs so they wont both be accurate on the same thermostat output.