Good points. I would like to see heating products that basically will never over heat or at least have a very low possibility of over heating during a failure. Aarons testing he did between them showed the RB tape to run hotter than flexwatt I was shocked by this. I would hope that both will address this and figure out a way to reduce and maintain a max operational temp. That is low enough that in the event of a tstat failure no lasting harm will come to the animals it is heating.