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Hello, everyone knows the heat tape everyone uses to heat racks, does it ever "die" or stop working good?
 
Actually, I too would like to know of people's experience with heat tape. I just had a sweaterbox system made and I need to heat it. It's going to cost me about 200 to outfit it with heat tape and I want to know I'm makeing a good investment.
Thanks all!
 
I have some racks with Heat Tape and they are  still working after 6+ years. As for $200.00 what are you paying per foot at what width. That just seems high unless your rack is just huge. Frank
 
We have been using the flex watt now for over 1 yr and have had great luck with it. We wire all of it thru a thermostat and then some thru a rheostat. We also have some of the pipe tape but you need to be careful because it gets very hot.    Casey
 
Actually, 200 is for twenty feet of it, with five sets of connectors. (3.69/ft at big Apple for 11" width.) My system is four feet long with five shelves. That amount also includes the rehostats-three of them. They aren't cheap- they are about 30 or 35 each and are about half of that figure.
 
Thank you. I now see why the price is what it is. At first I thought you were talking about one long piece of heat tape with only one set of connectors.
 
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