Quote Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl View Post

BTW you hook the mats/pads to a power strip then plug the strip into the stat

Semi-OT: This has never made sense to me. If you have several mats pugged into your strip, but only one probe to measure the temp of one mat, what happens if another mat, without the probe shorts out? Wouldn't that injure a snake, thus defeating the purpose of the Thermostat?