On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 12:31:54 -0500, Andrew Gideon
wrote:

I posted about this on the club's mailing list. Someone replied that
electric heating should be watched as protection against arcing (and some
nasty consequences of this).

But it seems from my reading of this thread that people are using electric
heat unattended.

I'm puzzled by the conflict.

The only problem I had was caught by the GFCI outlet. Actually, the GFCI
popped at a time when the heaters were still heating, and the A&P could not
locate the fault.

After we made sure the GFCI was properly functioning, he was able to locate
two elements that he felt weren't quite right (I'm not sure exactly what
that means). They were replaced and the problem went away. With a
non-GFCI outlet, the heater appeared to work fine.


Ron (EPM) (N5843Q, Mooney M20E) (CP, ASEL, ASES, IA)