How many feet of ....

Hey everyone, I need a little input here. How many feet of 4" flexwatt can i run on (1) Ranco T-stat? I'm not good at the whole watt*feet*volt measuring. Thank you

Ranco

1500 Watt Maximum Load

4" flexwatt

8 watts per foot.

1500/8= 187? LOL

Not sure if thats right but thats what it comes to when u break it down by watts?

You have to see the wattage on the flexwatt, they are all not the same. The Ranco runs 1500 watt which is a lot. For a small collection, or 1 or 2 racks I dont think you have to worry about it much.

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Originally Posted by Danounet

You have to see the wattage on the flexwatt, they are all not the same. The Ranco runs 1500 watt which is a lot. For a small collection, or 1 or 2 racks I dont think you have to worry about it much.

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yea 4" is 8w and comes out to 187 ;)

the 4" flexwatt i have is 8w per ft., now i'm not sure if all 4" fw runs at the same wattage.

I think 4" is all 8 watt. The 3" comes in 6 and 10 watts.
Unless your Brain Barczyk, you should be good!

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Originally Posted by jben

the 4" flexwatt i have is 8w per ft., now i'm not sure if all 4" fw runs at the same wattage.

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it does

But put it this way. You can run enough for what u need.

If your running 187 feet of flexwatt on one tstat we got probs. Can u image how many racks that would be? o.O

1 failure and ur hit lol

thanks, i will not run 187' of flexwatt but i'll run 186' just to be on the safe side...LOL i'm only joking, i will never run nowhere near half of that. but i think i'll downsize my flexwatt to the 3" 6 watt.

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Originally Posted by jben

thanks, i will not run 187' of flexwatt but i'll run 186' just to be on the safe side...LOL i'm only joking, i will never run nowhere near half of that. but i think i'll downsize my flexwatt to the 3" 6 watt.

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yea i mean say u run 25' per rack?

Thats like 7 racks :o what if a tstat went out! I bet there some some cheapos out there that would do it