If you closely look at this photo you can see that the cage did Not allow enough room for that RHP to be mounted correctly. That bump in the ceiling is too small so they just flipped it over to make it fit.
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Also plastic ears were glued on at the top middle to use L brackets. If you look at the other photo below you will see that those heat panels do not come with those "ears" attached.
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Heat wise, maybe (?) it doesn't matter after all, heat is heat and the exposed area is insulated.
However, the bolts need to go through some custom wood or plastic spacers that fill that gap to prevent the snake from getting stuck. The obvious reason the snake got cut was because shoulder bolts weren't used. I'm not saying that shoulder bolts should have been used, just that they would have been better than exposed threads.
That panel was mounted by someone with a Redneck Engineering degree.
Just because the company showed a very flawed way to mount their own RHP does not make it right.
Just because they make the product doesn't mean that they themselves use the product.
Gotta use some common sense here.