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    A word of warning though: DEFINITELY DEFINITELY DEFINITELY use a thermostat. I went through the "eh, we only have it on every so often, we don't need a thermostat" phase, and one day we bumped the dome while moving some stuff around: it let off sparks!! Turns out the heat had over time burned through the wire casing inside the ceramic socket and started fraying the wiring. It won't happen overnight or even probably over a few months, but there's absolutely no reason to chance it. It was a HUGE fire hazard and we were super lucky to have caught it. Those heat domes have wattage limits, so make sure you're also using the correct watt bulbs no matter what you get.
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