I have a 3 apartment building I've had an electrician wire for electric heat, he put in 20 AMP lines for 240 volt baseboard heaters which are installed in each room. The Cadet heaters we used are sold at Menards and come in 3 sizes- 30", 48" and 72", and two voltages. He told me the 240 volt are the better buy because they basically generate the same amount of heat for half the cost. All went well and good, and a lot of work and money down the road we're finally getting to the point where we can use these heaters. But they don't warm the apartments! Its absolutely bizarre. For example, I have a small 12' x 12' room upstairs where I've put in a 48" Cadet baseboard electric, and left it on HIGH all day long. When you go up to the heater, you can feel the heat. But the room is just not warm, even by end of day. Its really kind of an unexpected disaster- how could I possibly have anticipated that. Plain plug-in sealed oil heaters seem to put out way more heat, and even when I'm renovating I'm hunkering in the room with the oil heater cause the Cadet rooms are chilly. They are hooked up with individual Cadet thermostats "double pole", and I wired them exactly as in the instructions. Could there be something else wrong, or do these heaters just suck, and I'm screwed? The first renter is already complaining about the cold, and this has been a relatively mild winter. In that apartment there are two large Cadet 48" heaters and basically its just a two room unit and a bathroom- very small. Returning really isn't an option at this point :/ Thanks for input.

2 nights ago I had a power outage here at the house..woke in the morn the 3a fuse was blown on the low voltage board in the furnace ..I replaced it.. turned power back on ..BAM blew again on ramp up...and keeps blowing fuse still on ramp up... any ideas what maybe causing ? just start acting up since the power outage..???