Posted by Howard H. on February 01, 2014 at 18:40:00 from (75.91.165.85):
Bought an older house a while back and one of the bathroom ceiling heaters wouldn't work. The house is about 50 years old and ungrounded, but was built by a builder at the time for himself, so it is very well constructed and the wiring for the time is top-notch.
In checking the ceiling heater, it is on its own circuit, but the spring loaded, soldered thermal break on the heater itself had turned loose (right side of pic) - I resoldered it and it worked fine for a solid hour, so I can't find anything that specifically caused it.
I got to thinking later though - could that original solder connection have been very precise for the load?? And my resoldering it could have made it unsafe due to a thicker solder now??
Is it more appropriate to replace that with a fuse or breaker? Or do they still make those spring loaded soldered breaks?? Or should I just replace the whole thing due to an old-fashioned design?? Obviously, the whole heater is on a circuit breaker already, so I'm not sure why this was built into the heater, too??
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