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Re: Aquatic Plants Digest V2 #375



> From: NKLujan at aol_com
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 10:30:01 -0500
> Subject: Rena's Heating Cable
> 
>    The majority of the people on this list seem to be interested in a less
> expensive alternative to Dupla's heating cable.  Well, Rena has manufactured
> a simple but high quality heating cable for fish, plants, and reptiles far a
> few years and after all, how complicated does a heating cable need to be?

I actually called Rena (USA) on this a few years ago, and they said that
they don't make the cable except when there's a need for a large enough
order, and there just wasn't the demand for it, so I couldn't buy one, at
least in the US.  Maybe the guy I talked with was just an idiot, or maybe
things have changed now.  That would be nice.

One small caveat is that such cables are in fact 120 volt units, and
having high voltage drops ACROSS your tank is a potential disaster if the
insulation should wear thin at opposite ends of the tank. 

---
Erik Olson in rainy Seattle
under artificial 5000K spectrum light