I posted a couple weeks ago about checking voltage in tank water
here. I had what i thought was i minor problem, got zapped with my hand in the water, checked with voltage meter got some readings, figured it out..It was a T5 light covered in salt creep and i bypassed the ground prong on the plug. plugged it into proper socket
. Lesson learned. I installed a GFCI just after that happened and put a rid-volt in the tank. No more readings
. Fast forward to last night. Zapped again
. The rid-volt has a crappy suction cup and fell out. Put the grounding probe back in and still felt the zap.Tested the water THIS time on the proper voltmeter setting 0-200v AC (last time i was using 0-20v DC, oops)
54 volts!
Unplugged everything one by one and the voltage dropped bit by bit for every device. Its not one thing but everything?
With everything unplugged i get
2.7 volts (this is literally with NOTHING in the tank plugged into a power source)
with the lights plugged in it goes up to
4.5v
+ skimmer
21.6v
+ heater
32.4v
+ koralia powerhead
40.8v
+ aquaclear filter
54.0v
+ rid-volt and it drops to
4.0v
Theres more to the numbers but too much wiring stuff and i get a headache. Did i install the gfci wrong? ive tried 2 separate powerbars and get the same basic results. Its a super simple tank setup, if someone is good with this stuff and can fix it i'll pay in beer, frags, money, whatever. The fish and corals dont mind but i don't wanna get zapped again
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