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• Adequate air flow must be ensured. Otherwise, there is a risk of accumulated heat leading to the coil burn out.
• Depending on the ambient conditions, the heating coil may get fluffy, which in turn leads to overheating and burnout of the coil.
• Since the open coils are live, the customer must provide adequate protection against contact.
• Our heating elements are designed for being operated at defined voltages. Operation at higher voltages may reduce lifetime considerably or result in immediate failure (15% more voltage = 32% more power!).
• Install electric heating elements in systems, machines, and devices in such a way that they are easily accessible at all times and can be easily replaced if necessary. Heating elements are wear parts: they age due to temperature-related structural changes in the heating conductor material and can fail due to operational and application-related influences (e.g., thermal expansion, vibration, corrosion, contact with aggressive media) as well as due to incorrect operation or control errors. In the event of a malfunction, replacement is necessary.
• In every practice application there are working and environmental parameters which cannot be calculated exactly in theory. That is why we recommend generally to test our flat heating elements in the application under real working conditions before series use.



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