rgpennell
New member
How's everybody doing? It's been awhile since I was on this board but I have been busy wasting what money I didn't have on an unsuccessful bid for State Representative - incumbent's are hard to beat!
Anyway, I have missed all of you and now that I am trying to get back into things (my tank has taken a back seat and looks like hell) I'm having a problem. Today I started to clean the tank (acrylic) which was completely covered with algae and in the process some water came up over the side from time to time. I didn't think too much of it until we started to smell what smelled like an electric fire - you know that delightful smell of melting plastic insulation or whatever it is. It was coming from beneath the tank in the cabinet but I have both an Iwaki pump and my aquacontroller over in that area so I wasn't sure which it might be. I turned off the pump and it seemed to dissipate but I can't leave the tank without water circulation.
Question: is it possible that this was just due to some water getting into one of the outlets and everything will be alright after it dries out or does that make any sense? If you haven't guessed, I know a great deal about a lot of things but electricity isn't one of them!
The pump is still working when I turn it back on. Is there likely a problem with the pump? Its only been running a year and it was new when I got it.
Is it possible it is the aquacontroller? There was a recall on these and I never was able to get back there to check if mine was one of those under the recall but since the smell went away when I turned off the pump would it make sense for it to be the controller. Note the pump wasn't plugged into the controller, although both are plugged into the same wall outlet.
If I have to replace the pump at least temporarily anyone out there have a pump I could use at least temporarily?
Any thoughts? Help!
Rob Pennell
Anyway, I have missed all of you and now that I am trying to get back into things (my tank has taken a back seat and looks like hell) I'm having a problem. Today I started to clean the tank (acrylic) which was completely covered with algae and in the process some water came up over the side from time to time. I didn't think too much of it until we started to smell what smelled like an electric fire - you know that delightful smell of melting plastic insulation or whatever it is. It was coming from beneath the tank in the cabinet but I have both an Iwaki pump and my aquacontroller over in that area so I wasn't sure which it might be. I turned off the pump and it seemed to dissipate but I can't leave the tank without water circulation.
Question: is it possible that this was just due to some water getting into one of the outlets and everything will be alright after it dries out or does that make any sense? If you haven't guessed, I know a great deal about a lot of things but electricity isn't one of them!
The pump is still working when I turn it back on. Is there likely a problem with the pump? Its only been running a year and it was new when I got it.
Is it possible it is the aquacontroller? There was a recall on these and I never was able to get back there to check if mine was one of those under the recall but since the smell went away when I turned off the pump would it make sense for it to be the controller. Note the pump wasn't plugged into the controller, although both are plugged into the same wall outlet.
If I have to replace the pump at least temporarily anyone out there have a pump I could use at least temporarily?
Any thoughts? Help!
Rob Pennell
