Yeah I have 4 panels, 2 for 3 years the others for less than a year, and haven't had any of the issues listed, but that plus the amount of failures with RBI's THG heat tape is starting to make me question ever using their heating elements again...I can (barely) count on my hand the number of failures from RBI's heat tape in the past couple of months. Someone's entire collection got burned alive, another person lost a whole rack of tubs due to melting (luckily no animals were lost or harmed), and quite a few burned bellies with or without thermostats.

In the cases where the people contacted RBI, they were nothing but downright nasty, self-righteous, and refused to fix any problems.