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Does anyone know if you have to have space in between heat tape strips if you are using them down the back of a rack?
I am thinking of using the "tacking" method where you just tack in the plastic only edge to the back of the shelves then stick a piece of pegboard behind that, thus leaving some airation.
Problem is that I have the big 12" flex watt and I only want to make the racks four feet long each. My question is this. If I use three strips of the heat tape vertically down the back of the unit, can I get away with the three inch sections in between them?
If the general concensus is that the three inch sections are too much, could I just somehow rig up some aluminum tape to add about an inch to each piece of flex watt thus making the strips between each piece of tape only about an inch and a half?
If I do end up covering so much of the back of the unit with flex watt do I need to worry about ventilation?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much guys!
Rebecca
I am thinking of using the "tacking" method where you just tack in the plastic only edge to the back of the shelves then stick a piece of pegboard behind that, thus leaving some airation.
Problem is that I have the big 12" flex watt and I only want to make the racks four feet long each. My question is this. If I use three strips of the heat tape vertically down the back of the unit, can I get away with the three inch sections in between them?
If the general concensus is that the three inch sections are too much, could I just somehow rig up some aluminum tape to add about an inch to each piece of flex watt thus making the strips between each piece of tape only about an inch and a half?
If I do end up covering so much of the back of the unit with flex watt do I need to worry about ventilation?
Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks so much guys!
Rebecca