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Posted by on October 5, 2007, 12:07 pm
> Dear group: We recently had problems with an electric baseboard
> heater in the office building where I work. The heater began throwing
> sparks and burned through part of the heater's metal casing. The line
> voltage thermostat was turned off but the breaker was still on. The
> building and heaters are about 25 years old. I do not know the make/
> model heater other than it is 240 volt. I have two questions:
>
> 1. When we had an electrician look at the heater, we asked him why the
> heater would have power when the thermostat was turned off and the
> heaters were not "heating". He said that they always have power and
> always produce a little heat, something like a pilot light on a gas
> furnace. It doesn't make sense to me why the heater has a "pilot
> circuit". Do any of these heaters have such a circuit? I know that
> the heaters in my office have no power until the thermostat calls for
> heat.
Pilot circuit.... LMAO
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