Wiring baseboard radiant heater
I've been trying to install a new baseboard radiant heater, just as dennis6 described, but the unit will not heat up. I finally bypassed the thermostat and hot wired the unit (in order to determine if the thermostat was the problem) but still no heat, even though the wires at the unit test hot.
I have a 12/2 wire running from the panel directly to the baseboard unit. Ground is attached to grounding screwin the heating unit, and the (hot) white & black wires (coming from a twin 20 amp breaker) are attached to the two wires on the 240 Vac heating unit. Still no heat.
What am I missing here?
Is there an independent test for determining whether the heating unit is defective? I bought two of them, and neither works under the scenario I've described.
Any thoughts appreciated.
Bob