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O honorable Agios

Wondering about wiring a thermostaticly controlled fan to exhaust air from the room when the temp hits, say 85, but shut off once it cools back down to 75 or so. I have a standard 50 cfm fan wired in now through a $10 rotary thermostat that I picked up from Lowe's. Trouble is, fan comes on when the room's cool (less than 70F) and goes off when it gets warmer. Additionally, no "instructions" with cheap themistat device, but there's just a red and black going in and coming out. Sounds like should be a straight forward problem, but I sense that I may need to purchase another $10 device from Home Depot that specifically says it does,....what exactly?

Any ideas?

With your offer of problem solving, I'd guess the traffic on this thread will test your typing skills. Try hiring a transcriptionist if things get too busy.

Thanks (and nice 'Ho)
 
This is 0 Agios engineer. 0 Agios hired me to answer all your questions till he comes back with his private airplane. Ok my friend Ed Ricketts the black and read go in series with the load. Another words break 1 of the cord wires and connect in between. Make sure the thermostat is rated for 120 volts because most are 24 volts.
 
0 Agios, the company that makes those also makes DPST (or is it SPDT) anyhow, whatever the one that can be used in reverse mode (turn back on at the end of X minutes).

The problem is that it costs about ~37 bucks shipped.
 
well you don't want to pay the 37 bucks, you don't want this you don't want that.............. I am not a magician OK? ok ok how much can you afford to pay for a thermostat ? cheeeeeeeeee
 
Ok Mr. Electrician guy... what is the tripping voltage of a GFI? I recently had some equipment that went bad that caused the water to be able to shock me (but this shock did not trip the GFI). With a multimeter I was able to measure ~ 11vac.

The GFI is in working order as I once poured saltwater directly onto a powerstrip and it tripped. Yea, don't ask. =)
 
Ok barjam thanks for the work. GFIs trip by sensing a difference in current between neutral and hot. If the current is different by 5-30 m-amps (0.005-0.030 amps) then a GFI trips. The reason you got socket is because you didn't have proper grounding. See you can have a GFI and think you are protected NOOOO. You should have a GFI but most important is to have proper grounding.
 
my friends fish are loosing their color and some are getting white spots and tonight he got shocked while cleaning filter what can he do to fix this problem
 
Sounds like voltage is leaking to the tank. A $ 5 grounding probe should do the trick. Check for bad cords and you can put a volt meter between the water and ground on a receptacle, if you read any voltage shut of all equipment 1 at the time till you find the defective part and fix it. Voltage leaks are easy to have since saltwater is very conductive.
 
On the response to my post you say proper grounding, do you mean a grounding probe or do I need some other work to be done?
 
Ok, I installed a 15A GFCI outlet and the light on it shows green. Our aquarium equipment works fine on that outlet. However everytime we turn on the ceiling fan which is also on the same circuit, the GFCI outlet trips. I went back to the store and got a 20A GFCI outlet but same thing. If nothing is plugged into that outlet, it will still trip if we turn on the fan. We also have a small refrigerator on that circuit. The circuit breaker shows 20A for that circuit. My uncle is an electrician but he can only make it tomorrow. Right now we're using candles for that room. Could it still be installed incorrectly?
 
I like this specialized work O Agios is doing. Not to horn in on his income producing thread, but should anyone need their tanks transformed into a Mfg. Housing unit, just let me know. Lots of experience in the field, fair (ly high) rates and can go anywhere so long as the price is more than right.

OK, back to you O Agios.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=9582604#post9582604 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by blkdrgn
Ok, I installed a 15A GFCI outlet and the light on it shows green. Our aquarium equipment works fine on that outlet. However everytime we turn on the ceiling fan which is also on the same circuit, the GFCI outlet trips. I went back to the store and got a 20A GFCI outlet but same thing. If nothing is plugged into that outlet, it will still trip if we turn on the fan. We also have a small refrigerator on that circuit. The circuit breaker shows 20A for that circuit. My uncle is an electrician but he can only make it tomorrow. Right now we're using candles for that room. Could it still be installed incorrectly?
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Sounds like you have a week neutral (return). Without the GFI your lights probably deemed at different times. It may be just a bad splice and only a wire nut. Also if you open the electrical panel pull out the circuit breaker and check the contacts of the breaker for burn marks. Check the neutral bar visually for burned or arching wires, just move them and see if they are arching. If they do you just need to tighten the screws a bit.
 
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Is it possible that I have a small electrical current running thru my NanoCube?
Can I use a standard tester to find out or do I need one for water specifically?
 
Aliee with a standard voltmeter plase one probe in water and the other in the ground and neutral of a receptacle (white wire is neutral, the green and any metal part is the ground) it should zero, if it dos not, than theres voltage leaking in the nano cube.Voltage leakages with saltwater are very easy to have because saltwater is very conductive.
 
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