C402 pilot reported encountering icing conditions upon descent with propeller deice equipment failed...

Narrative:

During my descent; I was assigned 6000ft by approach. As I entered a layer of clouds about 8000ft; I turned on the aircraft's anti-icing equipment. I leveled at 6000; and noticed the propeller anti-ice voltmeter was indicating that the equipment was not operational. I looked at the circuit breaker and saw the right one was popped.I informed ATC of my equipment failure. Approach requested and received a PIREP from traffic ahead of me; indicating that there was ice in the clouds but the bases were about 5500 to 5000 feet; some light mixed ice was developing on my airframe. My experience of the ice that day was mostly light but some pockets of moderate around 5-6000 feet. I informed [dispatch] of my situation and elected to continue to [my destination] as I was close to the bottom of the icing layer and a climb through it to divert would've prolonged exposure to the ice.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C402 Pilot reported encountering icing conditions upon descent with propeller deice equipment failed. Pilot elected to continue descent to destination with a successful landing.

Narrative: During my descent; I was assigned 6000ft by approach. As I entered a layer of clouds about 8000ft; I turned on the aircraft's anti-icing equipment. I leveled at 6000; and noticed the propeller anti-ice voltmeter was indicating that the equipment was not operational. I looked at the circuit breaker and saw the right one was popped.I informed ATC of my equipment failure. Approach requested and received a PIREP from traffic ahead of me; indicating that there was ice in the clouds but the bases were about 5500 to 5000 feet; some light mixed ice was developing on my airframe. My experience of the ice that day was mostly light but some pockets of moderate around 5-6000 feet. I informed [dispatch] of my situation and elected to continue to [my destination] as I was close to the bottom of the icing layer and a climb through it to divert would've prolonged exposure to the ice.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1412809
Time
Date	201612
Local Time Of Day	1201-1800
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.TRACON
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	Marginal
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Cessna 402/402C/B379 Businessliner/Utiliner
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Descent
Flight Plan	IFR
Component
Aircraft Component	Propeller Ice System
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

C402 pilot reported encountering icing conditions upon descent with propeller deice equipment failed. Pilot elected to continue descent to destination with a successful landing.