Newcomer looking to jump into the scene.

[soy.lor.n]

Believe me, heat tape (or flexwatt) isn't all that complicated.
As another poster already said, you can have it all wired up and sent to you. If you're going to be moving up to bigger tubs,
I'd reccomend it instead of an UTH. Trying to move a UTH from one tub to another is horribly tricky, because if you just pull it off,
it might not work properly after that, or you might have some
serious hot spots due to broken wires inside it.
With flexwatt, you just gently peel off the tape around it, and you're good to go for as many tubs as you need to upgrade to.

Just my 2 cents.

yeah, if you get it wired, it's pretty much identical to a UTH, except it doesn't have adhesive on it (which is probably a good thing!) so you can just tape it on