Well... if you're talking about keeping it at 50 degrees F, then it's not really warm is it? I've never seen a thermostatically controlled block heater so I don't know a thing about them. The heaters I've used are a very conventional type. They're got a 600 watt heating element hooked to a cord, no thermostat, no nothing. They keep an engine handy 50 celcius, and believe me, that will cost you money and you will see it on the power bill. 600 watts an hour times 24 hours is 14.4 KW @ $.10 per KW/H is $1.44 per day or $43.20 for 30 days..... As far as the life of the heating element goes.... you can believe me or not, but I've changed a lot of them. They do burn out. One per year was standard because they ususally didn't last the winter.
Yours may be vastly different where it has a thermostat. Chances are it's not running more than 20% of the time to maintain that temperature in a localized area around the heater. Chances are also good that if you unplugged it and forgot about it, the tractor would still start exactly the same way...
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