I finally successfully wired and soldered and taped and got my rack set up with heat tape and IT WORKS!!!!! I was so afraid of it but now I feel like I could do it as many times as I need, it's a lot easier than it seems. I'm so proud of myself!!!! I was convinced that when I plugged it in it wouldn't work. BUT IT DID!!!!!!
The way I did it was extra tricky too, it's a solid 8 tub rack so I drilled holes in the back to run the cords through and daisy-chained 4 strips on the bottom running on one cord and 4 strips on the top running on another so that it's 2 separate sets of 4 interconnected strips with a cord on the lowest strip of each set (I hope that made sense, I wish I took pictures.) It only has the wires going outside the rack so I actually had to do some of the soldering inside the shelves.
So for anyone afraid of wiring heat tape like I was, watch the tutorials a couple times. You can do it!!!!!!!
I just wanted to thank everyone who helped me and gave me advice; Everyone who replied to the thread: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ght=heat+clips, OhhWatALoser for posting the thread http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ghlight=solder, RichsBallPythons for creating that thread, and most of all Pookie! for her extremely drunken soldering lessons. She was so drunk she couldn't possibly do it herself or even really make complete sentences but she still talked me through it and showed me enough that I can now solder fairly well.
Thanks guys!!!!!!!!!
Now everything's all set up on my new Herpstat 2. My snakes are happier for it.
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