electricity leeching out into the aquarium

Ding2daDong

Ding2daDong

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Just last night I installed my octopus200 w/ gate valve mod and just this morning I put my hands into the tank and right where I had a cut I felt the shock! :eek2:

I turned off the pump and put my finger into the tank and everything was fine so I know it is that pump in paticular.

Just wondering if there is anyway to fix the pump?

Also do any of you run those grounding probes or the probes with the led light at the end just in case powerheads or pumps leech electricity into the aquarium?

Thanks

-Matth
 
Did you remember to acclimate that Electric Eel? :eek2:

Seriously, use a grounding probe and try to stick to grounded equipment if it's going in the tank. I got a serious shock once from a Rio powerhead (not the UL Listed one).

You should use a GFCI, just don't put all your life support systems on the same one. If it trips, everthing dies.
 
sometimes just changing the plugs around stopped mine too. Not sure if it got wet or what....but I would keep a ground probe in there all the time. I have one in both of my tanks!
 
question on a grounding probe...if theres more than 1 tank per system should there be 1 probe per tank...or just 1 probe per system?
 
with my knowledge of electricity I believe only one per system is needed. Although I don't know if there is a cap on the amount of current a probe will handle.
 
I have one in my sump and one in my tank as well as gfi's for all equipment. better to be safe then sorry
 
Well I guess I need to get one then. If anyone has a grounding probe, specifically the one that has an LED so I know that something is leeching out electricity please let me know, I'll probably just buy one off ebay.

Thanks for the help

-Matthew
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10664473#post10664473 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Ding2daDong
If anyone has a grounding probe, specifically the one that has an LED so I know that something is leeching out electricity please let me know.
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I didn't know that they make one with an LED, does anyone know were i can get one. I see them on several online sites but none that say LED on it.

THANKS,
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=10664387#post10664387 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by nyvp
I have one in my sump and one in my tank as well as gfi's for all equipment. better to be safe then sorry
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Thats the way to go :D one per tank + GFI
 
And let's not forget the importance of drip loops. Make sure all electrical cables loop down then up into the socket. This will prevent water from traveling down the power cable and straight into the socket. Though I've personally never done it :), you could easily cause an electrical short, or worse a fire.
 
off topic, but speaking of gfic's and loosing things -
I had a stand-alone freezer plugged into an outlet which was gfic in my garage, and guess what happened.
The outlet tripped and I lost the entire contents of the freezer. It was filled with food. And it stunk to high heaven. I replaced the outlet with a non-gfic.
I would not plug anything important such as life support into gfic but that's just me.
 
I agree with you MediaHound. Of course most of my ideas seem to go against the grain.

I do use grounding probes but I will not use GFI outlets on my aquarium equipment. We live in a tropical "paradise", and I say that loosely. The GFI's that I do have in my place seem to trip way too often for no apparent reason. I chock it up to the humidity factor of living in paradise. I don't want to leave for a couple of days and lose everything just because a GFI outlet tripped.
 
"I had a stand-alone freezer plugged into an outlet which was gfic in my garage, and guess what happened.
The outlet tripped and I lost the entire contents of the freezer. It was filled with food. And it stunk to high heaven. I replaced the outlet with a non-gfic.
I would not plug anything important such as life support into gfic but that's just me."

ditto,

I don't use GFI's on any of my equipment. I've heard of people losing their tanks to GFI's tripping, and have a friend that lost his tank due to one tripping when he was out of town.
 
It was fairly recently and the smell still lingers in my nose when I think about it.
Glad to hear you guys aren't using them... that sucks about your friend's tank jman.
 
shoot ...i had the one outside trip and i lost about 30lbs of deer meat that i had left over from my hunting trip.... sucky thing, i wont have a chance to restock on the deer meat this year...

DAM YOU GFI , DAM YOU !
 
Just think how bad YOU will smell after a few days when your family finds you stiff with your hands in the tank.

No really, I don't use GFCIs either.
:fish2: :bigeyes: :fish1:
 
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