disintegratus
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I've got a few heat cords running on various enclosures, so far I love them. Cheap to buy, cheap to run, safe, silent, practically invisible. Awesome things.
I'm in the process of making up some heat pad thingys, with routed timber and a tile, I made a small one but my 25 watt cord was too much for it and the temps I was getting were too high. I couldn't find a spare 15 watt cord, so I pulled the cord out of my gecko's tank temporarily. after running it for a day or so to test it, the cord just died. I actually thought it had become unplugged, but nope. It was only a few months old, too.
So I was just wondering, in other people's experience, how often they die, and if anyone's had a bad experience with one malfunctioning like a heat mat, or if they just stop working and go cold when something goes wrong?
I'm in the process of making up some heat pad thingys, with routed timber and a tile, I made a small one but my 25 watt cord was too much for it and the temps I was getting were too high. I couldn't find a spare 15 watt cord, so I pulled the cord out of my gecko's tank temporarily. after running it for a day or so to test it, the cord just died. I actually thought it had become unplugged, but nope. It was only a few months old, too.
So I was just wondering, in other people's experience, how often they die, and if anyone's had a bad experience with one malfunctioning like a heat mat, or if they just stop working and go cold when something goes wrong?