Hey, no problem!! The actual coils themselves are inside the "element", totally encased. You cannot get a shock from them. The casing is 'Incolloy' and is used to encase high temperature heating elements. The elements come to us straight and we bend them to fit our requirements. At each end of the heating element is the actual electical connection, insulated from the encasing by a ceramic insulator. The actual electical connection is outside of the kiln muffle (the ceramic fiber kiln body), but inside the metal case.
It hangs down approximately 1/2" from the roof of the kiln body, and while you can't see it in the pictures on the website, there is a block in place to keep you from running straight at the element -- not that you would -- the temp of the element is around 1700 F when energized and at kiln temp (say 1000 F) when not energized.
The length of the element (or how far into the kiln it runs from the back towards the front) is 8.5 inches.
These elements have been used by us in our kilns since 2002 and we have had only 1 element go bad in all that time. This type of element also has a higher proportional wattage output than coiled wire does because of the denser and shorter run of the element.
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Ed Peterson
Sales Manager
Aura Visual Concepts, Inc.
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