Yeah... First thing I'd do is turn your chest freezer on its end. Mitch is right; when you open that door it's a HUGE opening and your heat is going to be gone. After I stood the freezer up, I'd go "wait a minute... I have nowhere to put this rediculously huge chest freezer standing up..."
Of course, another solution is to put a viewing window in the top of your freezer, which should eliminate most of the reasons there are to open the freezer.
Assuming you still have somewhere to keep it, I'd wire up just one piece of flexwatt. If you think you need a bunch, just get a long piece. If you already have the flexwatt pieces, you have two choices. You could wire them in a series so they still function as close to one piece as possible. Or you could wire each piece individually, plug them into a powerbar, and plug the powerbar into your thermostat.
Fans don't go in the herpstat... Since they have nothing (in theory) to do with heating, you don't really want them turning off when the heat is right... You want them going all the time to keep the air temp consistant.
Be sure to post when it's done! I'd like to see this build for sure.
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