Quote Originally Posted by PitOnTheProwl View Post
Kind of curious who they are.


This is just a stupid question in my mind!! How much had you installed in 1980 when you first hit the market??
I am replying to THG claims that they have millions of installs around the world and in S. Korea. If that is the case I think it would be OK to post info on the manufacturer so you guys can have piece of mind.


So anyone that tries to make a product to give you competition in automatically a "cheap imitation knock off"?
No there is one other company that does it very well also. That is it. the Koreans cut corners and use cheap material. Thay also have no idea how to stabalize the ink.



Pony up the mouth of that horse you are riding and post VIDEO of your testings just because anyone can do what they want to a product and then fudge the photos however they want. until then you are starting to sound like the southern end of that pony with threats you might not be able to back up.
We started the testing on 12/10. This is only the first of the tests to check for resistance change. It goes into an oven at 85C as per most listing bodies. After 6 days the ink became untable and the resistance dropped by 16%. it is hard to shoot video of this because it woudl be days of seeing no change. What I think might be the best thing to do is have the guy that posted the results of his test try it in 3 months again to show the difference in the korean product and the same heat levels in ours. It is put in an 85C oven to speed the process up. You can find that test on ULs website. The reason this happens is the cheap bus bars that dont have any reinforcement with silver and a tin plate oxidizes and the product starts to burn up. the ink then becomes very unstable and resistance changes. In a few months we will know exactly who manufacturers this product because we can match it with the resistance change in other korean products.

BTW, if everyone uses their brain a little...................... We are talking about an electrical product and anyone can make it fail if you try to. The question is will it fail under normal operations of its maximum normal usage limit?
Even though the testing speeds the process up the whole point is to show that over time the product will become too hot or too cold. We have tested Korean products that are ment for floor warming and ended upp being able to melt about 4 inches of snow per hour. this is not safe for anyone let alone reptiles. No electrical tests for arching and sparking have been done yet until we get the new connectors they use.