Flexwatt problems

I dont know what to effin do. I know how to daisy chain/spice wires together. But for some fricken reason my top piece of flexxwatt is 10+ degrees hotter than the bottom two. Its the last of the daisy chain. What do i do? I even tried puttin that one on a seperate plug on the same thermostat amd still too hot! Are the little metal clips on steroids?' I dont get it.

Could it be that the other strips aren't connected as well? Have you tried putting your probe on that strip and seen how the others reacted? I'm not too sure aside from loose connections possibly...

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Yep. Tried that too. Other two get really low. Tried disconnecting and re connecting it all. Nope! Doesnt work.

That's so odd. Well I'm hoping someone with more experience will chime in cuz I am at a loss. Good luck :/

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Those little clips I've heard aren't the best connection. I'm assuming that fore some reason it has a better connection than the others. I would solder the wires too the flexwatt. It's what I do and I've had no issuers. Also what are you using to measure the heat?


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Do you have one piece wired to the next or do you have each piece soldered to leads that go to a power strip or something similar, with each piece wired to it's own lead?

The clips suck. They don't connect very well and the electricity doesn't run evenly through them. I used them for my first batch of flexwatt and none of the equally sized pieces ran the same temp. Solding the wires directly to the flexwatt fixed the problem.

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I soldered mine too as it seemed like a better connection. That would make a good deal of sense, it being the clips.

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Yea im goin buy some more solder so i can solder it on and try that

keep us posted
double check your flex-a-watt and make sure it is the same length.

Yea im goin buy some more solder so i can solder it on and try that

What type of metal sticks to the metal strip on flexwatt. I just gt some 1mm golden solder and it doesnt stick.

silver solder should, make sure you get all the plastic coating off first

Haha yea i know that. Haha

If your having heating problems i feel bad for you son, i got 99 problems and flexwatt aint one!

Good luck soldering it. The clips always worked fine for me but i used a vice to clamp 'em.

This is almost exactly the issues I had in my case the flexwatt was 100% fine the issue was the room temp was quite cool and the bottom was cooling faster than the flexwatt was heating it.

What is the ambient air temp?

ambient is fine. when the thermo kicks on the other two stop at 90 while the top one heats quicker and settles out to 99ish

the room ambient.

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My room is cool the lower levels cool faster as heat rises in my case I had 17º top to bottom. If you want to see for sure flip the flexwatt the top to bottom bottom to top. Once the temp stabilizes the if it is still hotter at the top it is clearly not the flexwatt. This is what I found with almost the exact same result.

ok thanks. will do

So i rewired it again and spliced the top one in with the sexond one. Completely reconnected everything. On a seperate plug than bottom one. Middle tub is 89. Top registers at 111. I really dont know what to do

what is your room temps it sounds like gain to me.

77-82 ambient room temp