Electrical Warning

[marc42fe]

Ranger should keep his "intimate knowledge " to himself. you are flat wrong (wired a few houses have we ) and bambam is telling people how to kill themselves or burn their house down. ONLY CERTIFIED ELECTRICIANS should do any electrical modifications to a house and noone should tell anyone, that they have no idea of their competance with things that can KILL, to do it themselves. <img src="graemlins//angel.gif" border="0" alt="[angel]" /> There are no opinions in electricity.

 

[dad]

Thx marc42,
You just said what I Wish I had.

 

[marc42fe]

No problem Dad

 

[broomer5]

Just what I do ....
I have a gfci.
Grounding probe in all tanks connected to household electrical ground.
I have two return pumps in sump.
No powerheads in tank.
One heater in sump.
One heater in refugium
One powerhead in refugium.
I shut off all electrical power to all equipment including the lighting.
Then I reach my hand in the tank.
Not enough "stray voltage" evidence for me regarding the health affects on the fish and inverts.
Much evidence regarding me getting shocked by faulty electrical equipment in a tank full of highly conductive saltwater.
I protect myself.
I don't care for electrical shocks one bit.

 

[bammbamm74]

Originally posted by marc42fe:
<strong>Ranger should keep his "intimate knowledge " to himself. you are flat wrong (wired a few houses have we ) and bambam is telling people how to kill themselves or burn their house down. ONLY CERTIFIED ELECTRICIANS should do any electrical modifications to a house and noone should tell anyone, that they have no idea of their competance with things that can KILL, to do it themselves. <img src="graemlins//angel.gif" border="0" alt="[angel]" /> There are no opinions in electricity.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Hey, you know what, someone asked me how to wire a GFCI, and I gave them a heads up. Better than going out and buying one and doing it without asking. There are instructions in it but everyone here seems to be smart enough to know if they can handle wiring a GFCI or not. If they don't want to wire one up, buy an inline GFCI pigtail. Those are expensive, but they work.
Hunterdaddy, I put dissipate for lack of better words. Look, I know why I don't want one, learned that at DeVry, no need to argue about it.

 

[marc42fe]

Thank you bambam. I really dont even want to talk about anything to do with electricity. I do that at work all day. my tank is my escape. Its just that I have been one of the ones who has had to fix some of these homebaked depot specials and it really isn't fun. Most people should never even open thier breaker box let alone try to wire anything. I like the Idea of putting all or as much of the pumps and powerheads in the sump and the refugiun as possible. Then ground that. That would pretty much take the tank out of the loop, the sump and rufugium being a more direct path to ground as well as send any stray RF from your tank(???OKAY????) to ground.