It's nothing more than a resistive element, so yes, like a light bulb it can eventually fail.
When I lived in the Great White North before I had a heated garage, I installed one of those timers that might be used for exterior lighting with a nice pigtail on the front wall of my garage. When I pulled in at night I plugged in the heater. It turned on my heater around 3:00 am, which was more than enough to have things toasty by the time I left for work. This worked well and helped to save on electricity. Dan Sent from my iPad On Jan 2, 2013, at 2:33 PM, Craig <diese...@pisquared.net> wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 14:07:32 -0500 Jon Agne <jonag...@gwi.net> wrote: > >> Does it hurt to keep the block heater plugged in for a week while not >> running the car? > > I recall hearing somewhere that the block heater is like a light bulb and > after many hours of use will burn out. I'm not sure if that is true or > not. > > Not running the heater will save on electric costs to the tune of > 9.6 KWh per day -- typically around a dollar a day. > > > Craig > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
