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lockrookie 03-12-2015 02:13 AM

Lol all this gfi talk and I'm sitting here reading it.... The heater I have in my frag tank blows lights flicker. Ambiance of a paranormal activity. And the aroma of burnt water... Carry on..

daplatapus 03-12-2015 02:47 AM

Lol, that's why I went titanium. I can totally see why you'd want several GFI's and strategically group certain pieces of equipment together and not with other pieces. Nothing like your whole tank being shut down while you're not at home because one basically trivial piece of equipment fails.

mark 03-12-2015 02:53 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregzz4 (Post 940405)
You guys are missing the point

If you use 1 gfi per circuit you risk turning off ALL your equipment with just one piece failing

I got 3 ccts (2 breakers and a recpt), 13 might be a little overkill

FishyFishy! 03-12-2015 03:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mark (Post 940414)
I got 3 ccts (2 breakers and a recpt), 13 might be a little overkill

Not overkill at all. It's just smart. If one thing trips in your tank, the rest are unaffected and your system keeps running. Imagine your 1 or 2 gfci's trip in the morning before you went to work. 8 hours later...you come back to a possible disaster. I'd much rather loose one piece of equipment than everything.

I'd do that in a heart beat if I wasnt a cheapskate!

Glad you are ok Adam. I hate getting zapped!

toytech 03-12-2015 02:38 PM

If there all in series if the fist one on the line blows it will kill all the rest after it , same as if you have a gfi contolling several outlets . Or is there a different way to wire them up so they don't do that?

Aquattro 03-12-2015 02:59 PM

I don't have any. If anyone notices I don't post for a while, you know what happened :)

indreamx 03-12-2015 03:16 PM

Do you guys plug your non power gfi bar to a gfi outlet?

lastlight 03-12-2015 03:37 PM

my entire tank is on one gfi and i got a little strip light in my sump cabinet wet the other day. entire tank went down. i should get around to changing it but prob won't as i'm home almost all day.

mike31154 03-12-2015 05:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by toytech (Post 940457)
If there all in series if the fist one on the line blows it will kill all the rest after it , same as if you have a gfi contolling several outlets . Or is there a different way to wire them up so they don't do that?

Wire the devices in parallel. Means a lot of splices/marette connections, more wiring & cost of additional GFCI outlets. Essentially you continue to the next GFCI outlet by running wire from a marette splice instead of from the load terminals on the first GFCI outlet.

I think it's overkill as well to have 13, but I guess it depends on how many heaters, pumps, etc. you have & how critical you consider them on your system. I have 2 GFCI outlets each on a different circuit breaker. Haven't experienced a nuisance trip yet or tank crash as a result of GFCI shenanigans.

e46er 03-13-2015 01:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gregzz4 (Post 940389)
Not true
Everything in my system that touches water is plugged into it's own GFI

I'm not into having the whole circuit blow because of one bad piece of hardware

I was talking from an electrical point.
Anyways keep a heater and power head on each circuit and your system will be able to handle everything else off for a day while your at work.


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