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If your chicks are avoiding the heat lamp "hot spot" try either a lower wattage like a 100 watt incandescent bulb, or even a 60 watt, or raise the heat lamp. Your days are probably warm enough that a whole lot of extra heat isn't going to be required. If the room, and brooder they're in, is...

I don't believe those reptile warming pads get warm enough for baby chicks, but I'm ready to be corrected if I'm wrong about that. It needs to be at least 32C inside the "cave" with the heating pad draped over the wire frame, and the chicks' backs need to be able to contact the heating pad...

That's very doable. A heating pad does not pull many amps. It's not likely to put much of a strain on the power cord or your circuit breakers. Brooding chicks in the coop is so much more convenient for you, and at four weeks, the chicks are already moved into their coop and no transition is...

How far is your coop from the house or other building with power? A long extension cord for one heating pad for a month would be feasible.

You are growing baby chicks not hot house plants. You do not need to keep them at a uniform, constant temperature. Chicks will move in and out of the heat zone as they need warming, much like little campers warming up at a campfire. The larger the brooder, the better off all around the chicks...