It doesn't get much worse!

[Kenfuzed]

Possibly the worst day of my reefkeeping life! Today I was changing out my closed loop pump when I busted plumbing connection to my return pump. Suddenly the sound of gushing water from under my stand made my heart skip a beat. All in slow motion I glanced under the stand to see the return pump transformed into a fountain, emptying my sump onto the floor while showering everything electrical. :mad2:

I spent the rest of the day cleaning up and tearing out all my electrical power strips. Still too soon to see if I can salvage the X10 modules that were soaked. The powerstrips I won't even bother with. On the plus side, all my ballasts were kept remote and I had the sense not to reach into the gushing water to shut stuff off. Also good my girlfriend wasn't home to see that mahem :eek1:

 

[sps_addict]

Sorry to hear about that Ken. Let me know if you need help with anything tomorrow.

 

[Bebo77]

Ouch...

 

[drake66]

[profanity] that sucks

 

[Mchava]

yup brings back some scary nights for me too. I also had that happened but it was my overflow line that broke and in the middle of the night. I would say just replace the units. I almost had a fire once when I reused a light strip that I thought was fine then 1hr later is was smoking.

 

[Frankysreef]

Check my gallery for the way that I set up my electrical panel... Much better than those power strips... All set up with GFCI so everything shuts off and wont short out your components.

I remember one day when a power strip electrocuted my sump, and my hand... fun fun fun

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

Ken, sorry to hear your bad experience.

Frank, how much do you believe in GFCI? no offend but there is anyway we can do real experience with those GFCIs. I do know the manufacturee test them before they ship them out. But during the shipping and handling, there might be always something goes wrong. I almost hear about the electrical problem once a month due to Power Strip didn't strip. And I do believe that the GFCI does have life time "pop-up" that means if you test it once month, the max time pops up is 20 times, after that I don't know what happens when it is supposed to pop.

I am lucky enough that I can test the power strip or Circuit Breaker before I install them by using my company equipment. Here are just some experiments that I did with some Mil CBs.

Designator Value Min Time Max Time Actual Time Actual Amps Result
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

CB36A (30A PYLON STA 1 ECM) 30.0 5.0 20.0 17.04 59.91 Pass

CB6 (5A PYLON STA 1 ECM) 5.0 5.0 20.0 9.96 10.00 Pass

CB28C (5A COMPT COOLING) 5.0 5.0 20.0 10.35 10.20 Pass

C,DCS, 100.0 mA, >MIN, <5.000 Ohms, minDwell=0.000s, maxDwell=1.000s
HIGH CT MEASURE_73 ----> MEASURE_COMM 26.70 Ohms

An Open or High resistance has been detected while testing continuity
through breaker CB13. Repair or replace breaker as required and retest.
CB13 (10A PYLON STA 3 AGM-65 EO BB) overload test will be skipped.

 

[golfish]

Ken, if that's as bad as its gotten then consider your self lucky. I've got a old Amp Master 3000 out in the garage if you need to borrow it.

 

[818]

Sorry to hear man.

Thanks for the salt,its mixing right now.

Sam

 

[Frankysreef]

Here ya go F-18

I wired it using 10-2 cable, and a gfci on both ends starting with a switch. House components are much more reliable than any power strip, or any thing that plugs into an outlet.

 

[F35-Joint Strike Fighter]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6886686#post6886686 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Frankysreef
Here ya go F-18

I wired it using 10-2 cable, and a gfci on both ends starting with a switch. House components are much more reliable than any power strip, or any thing that plugs into an outlet.

Nice set up!