The reason I mentioned that is just recently a customer of mine had switched all of his heating products over to what he thought was a better designed product when in fact it was just a higher wattage element. With the sheer volume that he switched over...he never recalculated the added wattage and was on the verge of overloading his thermostat.
Mind you I don't really know the size or extent of your heating changes, or if an upgrade to your thermostat would be necessary, but I thought I should mention it for safety sake if your changes are going to be made on a grand scale.
(For the record his difference for heating on one cage was +7 watts. Multiply that by 50 and he gained +350 watts to his thermostat load. He has somewhere in the neighborhood of about 300-400 cages I believe.)
Good Luck and great chatting with you.....
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