me n my hermikids wrote:How many UTH's on one plug? I already have two big UTH's on my tank, and i was thinking of also adding th little one that i had from my 10 gal. There are no plugs near the tat, so i had to run an extension cord over. Is that too much load on the cord?
Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk
That has a lot more to do with the wiring in your house, and you need to talk with an electrician. If everything is the way it's supposed to be, you can figure out how many watts everything takes (it's listed on a tag or on the pad), and make sure your extension cord is rated for it and that the wall socket in not connected to too many others before it gets to the breaker box. In a perfect world, there should be more than enough to go around with absolutely no risk. Unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world and many houses have older wiring or someone who took shortcuts while putting it in.
Ideally, it's straight from the plug into the wall. With bad wiring, accidents can happen even with a single extension cord. You do not want to see my critter room. I have everything on the new wiring but I still keep worrying about what could happen. I keep begging hubby to run another set of wires up there with it's own breaker to be safe.