Tube heater

[Mangold]

I have had my fermentation fridge up and running for a while (two plus years) and it has been fine. I use an inkbird 308 to control the temp and have a tube heater inside it.

Three weeks ago my tube heater stopped working. My assumption was that after two years of use it had packed up. So I decided to buy a new one. I had to rewire the plug on the new one so that it could be plugged in. It worked fine, but in the last week has broken. I cant send it back because I changed the plug. But any idea of what could have blown the heater? It is in a dry spot of the fridge.

Thanks

 

[Graz]

I suspect you just had a duff one, they either die is a short space of time or last years. There's not much to go wrong, it's just a coil of resistive wire in a tube.

 

[parpot]

I have had my fermentation fridge up and running for a while (two plus years) and it has been fine. I use an inkbird 308 to control the temp and have a tube heater inside it.

Three weeks ago my tube heater stopped working. My assumption was that after two years of use it had packed up. So I decided to buy a new one. I had to rewire the plug on the new one so that it could be plugged in. It worked fine, but in the last week has broken. I cant send it back because I changed the plug. But any idea of what could have blown the heater? It is in a dry spot of the fridge.

Thanks

The same thing happened to me last year, I bought a new one which had a sealed plug on it so I had to cut that off to feed the wire through the fridge. I plugged it in and it didn't work so was faulty when I purchased it but like you couldn't do anything about it. The joys of home brewing