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[chrisstevens]

Also had a maxi jet fail about 6 months ago and had a tank crash, wasn't plugged into the gfi. Sump smelt like burning plastic in the morning. plugged it into the gfi outlet and kept tripping it. Found wire going into pump half broken and rusted. Sps suffered.

 

[Salty Cracker]

You have have have have to have a GFCI on your tank circuit or on the panel. electricity + salt water + us dumb idiots = We'll be bidding on your tank equipment at your funeral.

You can even make up one that sits inline, I had a bunch reefhero made up for the fragfest, you plug that into the outlet, and your tank into that.

 

[Reef Hero]

I run all my equipment that is in direct contact with tank water or within close proximity to my tank water on gfci.... It's safer IMO
All my equipment for my small frag tank when I'm traveling with my frags is also protected by one of those inline GFCIs salty mentioned above.


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[TORX]

Apex plugged into a GFCI here. Hoping all stays safe. Never felt a shock. I have heard people using grounding probes, but I personally would rather know there is an issue and repair it. With a grounding probe, you never know how bad it is or is getting.

 

[Kevin Tran]

full term for GFCI please, never mind saw it on first page lol

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Yeah its definately happening when the electrical get brought to my room. Ill look into one in the panel and then the outlets thats my tank will be running off of.

 

[scubasteve]

make sure you buy a good gfi i cheaped out and my powerheads switching on and off with the wave maker kept tripping it i baught a good one and no problems since

 

[saltyair]

Also an investment of $20 for a ground probe can save your life and fish. I had an urchin strip a wire once. Got one hell of a shock.
btw most aquarium power bars are equipped with gfi

 

[Salty Cracker]

I'm still torn on ground probes. One guy explained it as you either have current sort of lingering in your tank, or you have it running through it, and unfortunately since we're not fish we can't tell which is worse (likely both are bad).

I'm more in favour of using a meter and finding out what is putting current into the tank. I know my issue was a shitty atman pump, but I had put a grounding probe in the tank to eliminate the crazy high stray voltage, but fixing the problem was better than masking it. Maybe RH has better insight on which is better?

 

[yveterinarian]

I was wondering if anyone could post a link to a volt meter that they have used and like. I have one that tests receptacles in the house but not one to test my actual equipment. What kind would be good and do you plug the equipment into it and then the wall or powerbar to test it?

 

[reeferkeeper420]

The type u use in a recipticle is the same kind i used to test my tank. You tube it one end goes in the tank the other in the grounding part of the plug.

 

[Salty Cracker]

The type u use in a recipticle is the same kind i used to test my tank. You tube it one end goes in the tank the other in the grounding part of the plug.

I think she means she has the small one that looks like the end of a regular cord plug...
This: (polarity checker)

But she needs one of these: (multimeter)

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Ahhh okay gotchya

 

[Sewerat]

Nothing better then a fluke. But if you only need it to occasionally test a bit of wiring from time to time. Just go to canadian tire, radio shack, home hardware and get one that looks like the above. They are cheap, less then $20 normally

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Will the GFCI power bars work the same, or should GFCI outlets still be installed?

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Im looking at the Mastercraft 4 outlet GFCI powerbar.

 

[reeferkeeper420]

Will this do the trick??