Quote Originally Posted by Coleslaw007 View Post
I had always been under the impression that you would have say 6 pieces of heat tape and you would have one piece per shelf and on each side of each piece of heat tape you would solder one wire from each side of an extension cord and then solder the other end of each wire to the ends of the heat tape on the next shelf with the bottom piece of heat tape having the part of the cord that you actually plug in?

I really hope that made sense lol.




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That was a little difficult to read.

Do you mean like this?
http://www.herpcenter.com/reptile-ar...arallel1lg.gif


If so, you can wire up flexwatt like that, but I personally prefer not to do so. If I were ever to stop using a certain shelf, that piece of flexwatt would still be running because it's connected to the rest of the other flexwatt. I would rather turn off unused flexwatt. And it's just easier for me to disconnect one piece of flexwatt w/ it's own individual cord.
It's all just a matter of preference.