I am not an electrician but from my basic understanding of Ohm's law it would not be a good idea to attempt wiring flexwatt in series. In fact, it could pose quite a fire risk. Flexwatt is designed with the proper resistance to work at regular house voltages. Wiring in parallel keeps the voltage at the same level but adds up the amps from each piece of flexwatt. This is what you want. Wiring in series would leave the total amps constant but add up the voltages. Thus you would end up with a much higher voltage than the flexwatt was ever intended to work at and this could lead to failure of the product potentially resulting in a fire. If this is wrong then hopefully someone more knowledgeable about this will clear things up but I wouldn't risk trying it. If your flexwatt isn't heating up very well then you might want to check and make sure that you have good connections. A poor connection would result in less current flow and thus the tape wouldn't heat as much.



Chad
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• Wiring Flexwatt tape for breeding rack..... series or parallel? - Haydn, Wed Jan 7 20:22:33 2004
• RE: Wiring Flexwatt tape for breeding rack..... series or parallel? - joels417, Wed Jan 7 20:38:34 2004
• Parallel...more - Rob Jenkins, Wed Jan 7 20:41:22 2004
• Yep thats the one I went by Rob...... - Haydn, Wed Jan 7 20:48:55 2004
• RE: Yep thats the one I went by Rob...... - Rob Jenkins, Wed Jan 7 20:55:18 2004
• RE: Wiring Flexwatt tape for breeding rack..... series or parallel? - chadlong, Wed Jan 7 20:44:32 2004
• Thanks - Haydn, Wed Jan 7 20:56:13 2004
• RE: Thanks - chadlong, Wed Jan 7 21:00:03 2004