wagohn
06/09/2011, 02:18 PM
Hi all,
I had an incident last week with my tank where a leaky filter dripped water onto my electrical connections at the back of the tank. The saltwater landed on a power strip and we awoke to the smell of "burning" in the house. The faint smell led me to the culprit under my tank - the power strip was blackened and partially melted but luckily for us held together. So, I am now looking at installing some kind of GFCI protection but I am not 100% sure on how it works. If I buy one of these power strips with a built-in GFCI protection:
http://www.marinedepot.com/Tower_Shock_Buster_3_Outlet_Electrical_Cord_with_Inline_GFCI_GFCI_Extension_Cords_Grounding_Probes_S urge_Protectors_for_Saltwater_Aquariums-Tower_Manufacturing-TW38085-FIMIGF-vi.html
1. Can I hook up 2 power strips to this one GFCI protected strip and have all connected pumps etc GFCI protected? In other words would the pump in this schematic be GFCI protected?
PUMP -> Reg Power Strip -> GFCI Power Strip
2. If I have my arm in the tank and something in the tank fails/shorts in the tank itself, would the GFCI protect me?
Thanks all !
I had an incident last week with my tank where a leaky filter dripped water onto my electrical connections at the back of the tank. The saltwater landed on a power strip and we awoke to the smell of "burning" in the house. The faint smell led me to the culprit under my tank - the power strip was blackened and partially melted but luckily for us held together. So, I am now looking at installing some kind of GFCI protection but I am not 100% sure on how it works. If I buy one of these power strips with a built-in GFCI protection:
http://www.marinedepot.com/Tower_Shock_Buster_3_Outlet_Electrical_Cord_with_Inline_GFCI_GFCI_Extension_Cords_Grounding_Probes_S urge_Protectors_for_Saltwater_Aquariums-Tower_Manufacturing-TW38085-FIMIGF-vi.html
1. Can I hook up 2 power strips to this one GFCI protected strip and have all connected pumps etc GFCI protected? In other words would the pump in this schematic be GFCI protected?
PUMP -> Reg Power Strip -> GFCI Power Strip
2. If I have my arm in the tank and something in the tank fails/shorts in the tank itself, would the GFCI protect me?
Thanks all !