Something is wrong with heat tape

[Wicked Constrictors]

I went up stairs to my snake room and few times a week i put my hand on the heat tap in my rack to make sure its still working, well today roll 1 and 2 are good but when i went to roll 3 the heat tape made my hand tingle but roll 4 nothing. What is going on?

[rperry03]

How are they wired? Power strip, ext cord, series, series- parallel, etc?

[The Serpent Merchant]

Sounds like roll 3 is shorting and roll 4 isn't getting power.

Check all connections and see if anything came loose.

[Wicked Constrictors]

series parallel


roll 4 is getting heat but no tingle feeling

[The Serpent Merchant]

Roll 3 is damaged somehow. If the connections are good then something else is wrong and it should be replaced.

[Wicked Constrictors]

Everything looks normal the tape has been working great for 3 years and i looked at all the connections and they are all still looking good. Im happy have 8ft of tape just setting around lol guess its time to solder.

Thank you for your help.

[rperry03]

^ agree or your losing your connectivity in your connections or even in the wire itself. If you have a multimeter i would check voltage at each connection till you find out where you're starting to lose the juice.