I think that any short which would cause that much extra consumption,
would cause the wires to the heater to get hot, would pop the circuit
breaker/fuse, and would quickly destroy the heater. The only short which
would not cause an appreciable amount of heat generation would possibly
occur if it was dissipating through the water, but you would discover
this by getting an electrical shock.

NetMax

"FishNut" wrote in message
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One guy said he had unusually high electrical bills to discover a short
in
one of his heaters. Does anyone know how to check for this?

Thanks

"FishNut" wrote in message
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Yikes. I it's costing me about 65.00 a month to run my aquariums. I
have
a
55 gallon tank, a 10 gallon turtle tank and a small 3 gallon acrylic
tank.
Does anyone else have this problem? Apparently the tank heaters are
very
costly to run. And I have 3.