Heat Tape & Tank Heat Mats Warning - FIRE HAZARD

[rick87fc35]

Originally Posted by Steelwheels

Sorry to bring this up, but winters coming. What have most people done, I know some have shut off the breakers but I wanted to get the wiring.

I unplugged the one heat tape under the kitchen sink, and turned the electric baseboard all the way down. I know about this junction box in the rear under the bed that runs the electric baseboard and the heat tape in the rear. Cut the wires in the box ? Are there any other places that I am missing.
Are the electric baseboards a hazard, do they work, has anyone found alternatives maybe a small ceramic ?


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In my 87FC there was a plug for heat tape that I unplugged underneath the bathroom sink area, inside the bottom door on the right side, there was another access door with an outlet behind it, which powered the heat tape for the pipes that ran inside the chase along the drivers side. Did you get that one?

[Steelwheels]

Originally Posted by rick87fc35

In my 87FC there was a plug for heat tape that I unplugged underneath the bathroom sink area, inside the bottom door on the right side, there was another access door with an outlet behind it, which powered the heat tape for the pipes that ran inside the chase along the drivers side. Did you get that one?

No, defiantly did not get that one, I will have a look for it next time I'm at the Bird.
Thanks.

[Steelwheels]

Originally Posted by rick87fc35

In my 87FC there was a plug for heat tape that I unplugged underneath the bathroom sink area, inside the bottom door on the right side, there was another access door with an outlet behind it, which powered the heat tape for the pipes that ran inside the chase along the drivers side. Did you get that one?

I found two plugs in my bathroom behind that access door, I could not see them without disassembling the box with the access panel. Does anyone know what the the other plug is for or were they both heat tape ?

Thanks

[rick87fc35]

They are both heat tape.

[Steelwheels]

Originally Posted by rick87fc35

They are both heat tape.

Thats them, looks just like my coach. Thanks, yousaved me the time of tearing that box open to chase wires.