Constant wattage
Printed Polymer heaters are based on low resistance printed silver as current distributor. The heat is generated by a number of parallel connected polymer resistors and is therefore very robust and insensitive to small damages. The resistance is virtually constant up 100°C. Polymer heaters are mostly used in low power applications at moderate to high voltages were one would normally need to use precious metals to get the same low power as need. The resistance in the polymer can be adjusted in the range from 50 ohm/sq to 50 000 ohm/sq and is therefore suitable for many different applications. A polymer heater is also more corrosion resistant than metal heaters.

Heater benefits
- Possible to use on many different substrates
- Robust design insensitive to small damages
- Corrosion resistant
- Large span of resistivity

Typical applications
- Floor heating
- IR targets
- Waterbed heaters
- High Voltage, small area applications

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