I just purchased 36 feet of water pipe heating cable for the new snake rack I am building. These guys only turn on when the pipes reaches freezing. I cut out the built in thermostat and rewired the plugin part of the cable to the heating cable. Now when I plug it in, nothing happens. It is not heating up. Am I missing something here? I bought a seperate thermostat to control the heat cable, although I am not using it yet as there is no heat to control.
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Electric water pipe heating cable help
frogfood
Aug 17, 2003 07:50 PM
Replies (2)
markg
Aug 18, 2003 07:03 PM
Did you simply bridge the common and normally-closed contacts of the in-line t-stat? By normally-closed I mean the contact that would switch to the hot wire if below freezing. Are your connections good? I've done the same thing and it works.
frogfood
Aug 19, 2003 01:15 AM
No I didn't unfortunately. I tried cutting into the built in thermostat but it was to encased with ruber. There was not a simple way to get inside. I figured I would just cut the whole thing out and put a dimmer switch in instead. I guess that was a mistake. Is that where the source of resistance was that created the heat? Is there another solution to fix it?
Jeremy
