UTH just melted.

[Neill]

Well just hand a UTH burn up. Just plugged in another, worried its going to melt as well. Its a zoomed product anyone else have a UTH melt?

 

[Halley]

Did you put the feet on the bottom of your tank?

 

[Dan K.]

is it on plastic or glass? is your gecko alright?

 

[2bacop]

i have a zoo med an have never had any trouble with it, if anything its not hot enough

 

[Alusdra]

If you don't have it plugged into a power strip/surge protector, that's a good idea to do. It helps to keep spikes in the current from frying your UTH. I had one fry once, but it was really really really old- like my uncle gave it to me and he's been breeding geckos since er... well, before I was born anyway. Sometimes you get a lemon, though. But if this one shorts it's almost definitely your house current (and pretty likely that's the reason anyway).

Hope your gecko's ok!

 

[Neill]

gecko is fine all my tanks are glass and they are all elevated for air flow under tank and yes was plugged into a weatherstrip

 

[CSMGecko]

That is definitly odd. I have been using the UTH forever and have never had one melted. I wonder why it shorted out like that. Good thing your gecko is ok though. What size pad was it? At least it melted instead of catching fire like the heat tape has been known to do.