HeatTrak HR-EXT25 Watertight Cable Extender, 25-Feet

 (2 customer reviews)

We have lived in northern Michigan, where it snows almost every day in the winter, for 15 years and just discovered the heat trak mats last winter (2010) What a blessing these heat mats have turned out to be !! I wish we had known about them sooner, as it would have saved a lot of shoveling over the years.

This particular review is for the 25' extension. You can hook up 5 mats to a controller (the cord that plugs into the outlet). Since our garage is detached from the house, and we also wanted to be able to access a shed, we needed 3 sets. We also wanted to have them all plug into outlets inside the house, so I can easily turn them off on warmer days (especially handy in the transitional fall and spring seasons). This also allows easy access to see if they are "on" when we know snow is coming (a small red light on the controller indicates they are "on"). We have discovered that it works best to have each set plugged into a different circuit. The 25' extension cord goes...Read more

Bubby,
If you buy the HeatTrak pad buy this HeatTrak HR-EXT25 Watertight Cable Extender, 25-Feet as well. As a guy I thought that the other cord would be long enough. As man I knew that what looks long enough seldom is. Trust me like other things you've measured in your life, extra length is better. Otherwise you will bemoaning the length of just the enclosed cord in the original packaging. And wondering why you didn't just pony up at the time of your original purchase, and with the free shipping from Amazon and the great return policies how could you go wrong?