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I broke my 50w Tronic heater last night. I THOUGHT I had it on a timer with some other things (the timer runs for a few hours a day to keep my bucket of top-off/WC water warm and airerated), but I had it plugged straight into an outlet. I took the heater out of the bucket when I moved the bucket across the room to top off my 29g, and since it was plugged in, it turned on after a minute or so, and it got really hot. I smelled something burning, saw the heater's light on, overreacted, and tossed the heater into the bucket of water (holding it by the cord, obviously). Of course the heater shattered, and I'll need to get a new one sometime

My question is this: Is there anything toxic inside the heater? The little cylander that the heating coils are wrapped around seems to be porus, and I don't know if that it would leech anything into the water. I don't know if the thermostat contains anything poisonious (normal thermostats use mercury/tungsten alloys in vaccum tubes that could easily break and poison the water and/or ruin my bucket).

Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks

yea, and it burnt a black patch on your carpet, your dad has still 2 find out about, *waits till speaker phone is on and turned all the way up* MUWAHAHAHAHA

Daka

Thanks! I'll give my bucket a good wash and get some water up to room temp...but I'll wait to get more than one opinion on it before I put any of the water into my tanks

daka- It's a good thing my speakerphone sounds really fuzzy now since I broke that big piece of pencil lead in it and it's stuck on the speaker...it sounds really distorted when ya yell into it

you also put 2 screws into it if i recall correctally, and u aint even supposed 2 be on the comp or the telly 2night, your mommy said, so HA, and besides, those 5g buckets are $1 at ACE

*waits till one of Scott's parents picks up the phone*
*realizes he missed the chance 2night*

Daka

Last edited by dakafall at 11-Jan-2005 21:35

You might fix it buying a crystal tube from a chemical supplies store. Those are also used to drink shots of beverages, usually having three or more types of alcohol hehehe *** hic ** :%)