Heating Cables

Heating cables

The outdoor heating cables are designed for ice and snow melting and may be installed with no covering on the top of roof constructions or into special glue under tiles for ground constructions. Usual thickness of top layer for outdoor applications is at least 5 cm. But the thickness should comply with a ground construction and local norms and regulations. Range of heating cables linear output for ground application is usually 15-30 W/m.

• Efficient snow removal - area is kept free from ice and snow at all times
• No manual snow removal and salting becomes unnecessary.
• Safe traffic and working areas for people
• Flexible system for most common surface covering materials
• Cost saving for outdoor surface repair after winter

• Environment is protected against salting and antifreeze related damages.
• Automatic ”Around the Clock” snow clearing service.
• Smart 2-zone control with low energy consumption
• Prioritizing – limited power output solution
• PVC free, twin conductors heating cables and mats (IEC 60800)
• A maintenance free system with 20 year full warranty on cables

ECasphalt

ECasphalt an extremely high-quality, 360° fully screened twin conductor cable with a very robust outer sheath (UV stable), designed especially for embedding in mastic or asphalt concrete (road asphalt).

The cold lead has solid conductors ensuring fast installation with a clearly visible connection.

ECsnow

ECsnow an extremely high-quality, 360° fully screened twin conductor cable with a tough outer sheath (UV stable). Its round profile and robust construction ensures a fast, simple and safe installation on roofs, in gutters, down drain pipes and on the ground.

The cold lead has solid conductors ensuring fast installation with a clearly visible connection.

ECsafe

ECsafe an extremely high-quality, 360° fully screened twin conductor cable with a tough outer sheath (UV stable). Its round profile and robust construction ensures a fast, simple and safe installation in multiple outdoor applications. The cold lead is an installation cable with solid conductors ensuring fast installation with a clearly visible connection.

ECfreeze

ECfreeze 7.5T an extremely high-quality, 360° fully screened twin conductor cable with a tough outer sheath (UV stable). Its round profile and robust construction ensures a fast, simple and safe installation in frost heave prevention systems in foundation of cold stores, ice stadiums, etc.

ECaqua

ECaqua is a heating cable developed for being installed inside drinking water pipes with the purpose to prevent frozen pipes. The ECaqua 9T is designed with output of 9 W/m at 230 V, as it has been evaluated to give a good balance between needed output and long-term use of the product.

Features and benefits using outdoor heating cables

Efficient snow removal

Safe traffic and working areas

Flexible systems

Protecting environment against salting and antifreeze damages

Smart electric heating with low energy consumption

78 years of experience resulting in powerful products built with the highest standards of quality control.

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Documents

Documents
Type	Name	Language	Valid for	Updated	Download	File type
Data sheet	Danfoss ECaqua 9T	English	Multiple	22 Jul, 2020	467.7 KB	.pdf
Brochure	Danfoss ECaqua™ 9T	English	Multiple	16 Aug, 2018	480.3 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	Danfoss ECsafe 20T	English	Multiple	22 Jul, 2020	382.0 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	Danfoss ECsnow 20T 230V	English	Multiple	22 Jul, 2020	650.2 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	Danfoss ECsnow 20T 400V	English	Multiple	16 Sep, 2018	338.1 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	Danfoss ECsnow 30T 230V 400V	English	Multiple	22 Jul, 2020	652.7 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	Danfoss ECsnow 30T 400V	English	Multiple	16 Sep, 2018	373.8 KB	.pdf
Operating guide	Danfoss heating cables	English	Multiple	05 Dec, 2018	1.2 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Danfoss heating cables	Czech; Danish; German; English; Spanish, Castilian; Estonian; Finnish; French; Croatian; Hungarian; Lithuanian; Norwegian Bokmål; Dutch, Flemish; Portuguese; Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan; Russian; Slovak; Slovenian; Swedish; Chinese (CN)	Multiple	15 Jan, 2019	1.2 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Danfoss Heating cables Installation guide	Czech; Danish; German; English; Spanish, Castilian; Estonian; Finnish; French; Croatian; Hungarian; Lithuanian; Norwegian Bokmål; Dutch, Flemish; Portuguese; Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan; Russian; Slovak; Slovenian; Swedish; Chinese (CN)	Multiple	04 Feb, 2020	1.9 MB	.pdf
Brochure	Danfoss Outdoor Heating - End user leaflet	English	Multiple	19 Sep, 2014	147.1 KB	.pdf
Application guide	Danfoss Roof application. Frost protection Application manual	English	Multiple	22 Dec, 2016	8.2 MB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECaqua 9T	German	Austria	28 Nov, 2018	1.8 MB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECasphalt 30T 400V	English	Multiple	22 Jul, 2020	386.4 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECfreeze 7,5T 400V	English	Multiple	22 Jul, 2020	295.3 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECsafe™ 20T	Dutch, Flemish	Netherlands	04 Sep, 2013	193.3 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECsafe™ 20T	Chinese (CN)	China	04 Sep, 2013	317.5 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECsafe™ 20T	Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan	Romania	19 Sep, 2013	198.1 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECsnow 20T_230V	Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan	Romania	17 Jul, 2017	446.0 KB	.pdf
Data sheet	ECsnow 30T	Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan	Romania	17 Jul, 2017	447.5 KB	.pdf
Operating guide	Mobile version - Installation in Roof and gutters	Swedish	Sweden	14 Jun, 2015	3.2 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Mobile version - Installation in Roof and gutters	English	Multiple	03 May, 2015	3.2 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Mobile version - Installation in Roof and gutters	Danish	Denmark	15 Jun, 2015	3.2 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	English	Multiple	19 Jan, 2014	8.0 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Latvian	Latvia	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Estonian	Estonia	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Slovak	Slovakia	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Norwegian Bokmål	Norway	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Slovenian	Slovenia	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	German	Multiple	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Finnish	Finland	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Croatian	Croatia	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Chinese (CN)	China	08 Oct, 2015	4.4 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Serbian (RS)	Serbia	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan	Romania	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Hungarian	Hungary	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Czech	Czech Republic	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Polish	Poland	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Spanish, Castilian	Spain	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Swedish	Sweden	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	French	France	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Portuguese	Portugal	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Dutch, Flemish	Netherlands	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf
Operating guide	Outdoor Heating Applications	Danish	Denmark	08 Oct, 2015	4.3 MB	.pdf

Videos

Safe ground and roof with Danfoss heating cables

Danfoss has designed versatile outdoor solutions for pipe heating, roof and gutter, and ground heating that can be installed on virtually any type of construction including private, business and institutional buildings.

Safe Ground and Roof with Danfoss Heating Cables

Electric heating videos on YouTube

You can see all our videos about Electric Heating on a dedicated playlist on YouTube. Follow the link below.

Go to the Electric Heating playlist on YouTube

Tools and apps

EH Plugin for AutoCAD

The Plugin supports your engineering and design journey by making your work faster due to simple functionalities in calculating all lengths, dimensions and product data of cables and mats. It covers all applications within Electric Heating projects: Electric floor heating, Ice & Snow melting systems, Pipe tracing, Cold stores, Sport fields, Vineyards etc.
By utilizing Plugin, you will reduce design time for the project, provide all necessary information for installers in HTML/PDF format: BoM, resistance value check list, warranty list format. It means all project information can be consolidated in one file.

Plugin can be used with AutoCAD 2021.

Heat Selector

The Danfoss Heat Selector is a best-in-class online selection tool that optimizes planning process for heating application experts. The Heat Selector saves time in calculation for product selection and guides you to the recommended product mix for the application at hand. At the same time, the Heat Selector provides you with easy access to all required documentation.

Case studies

Electric Heating by Danfoss ensures safety along the asphalt driveway in Turkey

The longest asphalt driveway - called “Protocol Road” - equipped with Electric Heating is located in Turkey, North Ankara. The electric heating was installed along this 3.3 km 2-directions (3 lines each) road connecting Ankara city center and the airport.
Remarkable solution for Remarkables Ski Field Queenstown, New Zealand

The Remarkables Ski Field is one of New Zealands premier ski fields, located at a longitude of 45,05 degrees South, elevation 1 586 m and situated near the North end of the Remarkables Range. The base building has approximately 2 500 m² of heated outdoor patio at a density of 200 W/m². The heating of the patio matches the needs and requirements to prevent the surface accumulation of ice in a modern and highly efficient way.
Ice and snow melting in the City of Buffalo, USA

According to the National Weather Service, a series of lake effect events and clipper-type systems dumped 112 inches of snow on Buffalo, New York, in the winter of 2014-15. In an area accustomed to harsh winters, this was still unusual – about 18 inches above normal. But even this impressive amount of snow was no match for the Danfoss snow melt system installed at Canalside.

Related applications

Connected systems

Digitalization, remote access and Internet of Things (IoT) trends are increasingly important in HVAC applications. They drive the development of smart buildings and offer a significant energy efficiency increase by improving system performance based on building data. Danfoss offers different internet-connectable systems.