Ranco are not thermostat that were originally designed to control heat panels or heat tape, they are house thermostat and are commonly used by herpers even sold to control oil filled heater (wired especially for this purpose) and sold to control other heating devices as well.
The issue can be the wattage, which is something that always need to be check with any T-stat and heat source.
Ranco however also sometimes fail which is why like any T-stat they should be doubled with another t-stat as a safeguard.
Originally Posted by Deborah
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