To specifically answer your question, a typical electric heating baseboard has a capillary tube running it"s full length, as part of a temp limit switch that is supposed to cut the power to the entire heater if ANY section of it gets extra hot due to lack of air circulation in that area.
That being said, in my limited experience, I can immediately think of 3 incidents I personally know of in which things didn"t work as designed... in one situation, folks returned home and found their drapes that were hanging over an electric baseboard smoldering, in another case a neighbor had her son and friends home for the weekend waterfowl hunting and they woke up to a screaming smoke detector... a canvas duffel had got shoved against an electric baseboard and began smoldering during the night.
The third incident was a plastic laundry basket my folks had in the bathroom of their apartment... It was against a short electric baseboard and the plastic "webbing" got melted all to heck by the baseboard.
I still have that basket (as a good bad example), and will try to remember to take a picture of it tomorrow and post it.
After those incidents, I really don"t trust electric baseboards.
The house we live in originally had under-slab heat beneath the lower level which failed before we bought it and electric baseboards were installed.
I have removed them and put hydronic baseboards in the main area of the lower level, and electric cove heaters in two bedrooms and two baths. They mount high on the wall and eliminate any chance of furniture, drapes, rugs, clothing, or fabric items coming into contact with them and melting or igniting if the safety thermostats fail.
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