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As of recent, the electric baseboard in my son's bedroom is not heating up fully, that is, it gets warm but not hot to the touch. I replaced the thermostat with a programmable Honeywell several years ago and started with this, checking the wire caps and swapping out the "facepiece" with one in the living room. The thermostat shows full power (5 bars) going to the heater (the thermostat can vary the power instead of being straight on/off). I noticed the metal "wire" which runs above the element/fins, which I believe may be a high temperature cutoff, was hanging down on the end opposite where the control is, and reattached it to the holding clips, but still no full heat.
I checked the wires and the white, black, and another black from the opposite end of the element all read 120V at the wire caps. Here is what I have: white supply going to element, black supply to cutoff(?), white from opposite end of element capped to black wire running along bottom of heater and capped to a black wire going to cutoff(?).
I am just stumped as to what the problem may be: bad element, bad cutoff(?). I know baseboards are not that expensive but right now I am unemployed and have no money to replace it if it is something I can fix.
I checked the wires and the white, black, and another black from the opposite end of the element all read 120V at the wire caps. Here is what I have: white supply going to element, black supply to cutoff(?), white from opposite end of element capped to black wire running along bottom of heater and capped to a black wire going to cutoff(?).
I am just stumped as to what the problem may be: bad element, bad cutoff(?). I know baseboards are not that expensive but right now I am unemployed and have no money to replace it if it is something I can fix.



