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Originally Posted by EmilyB
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How important is it to ground your tank? I seen a unit that I believe is called a grounding probe. Is it necessary?
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A grounding probe without a GFCI can be dangerous. The purpose of the grounding probe is to drain stray current to ground. This will trip your GFCI.
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A GFIC breaker or plug trips with current on the neutral. the groundding probe directs the current to the earth ground through the plug. Electricity will take the path of least ressistance to ground, providing the probe you are only providing the path.
What I have done is a bit redundant, because if a heater breaks again the GFIC should trip before the breaker. But if I have a bad GFIC for any reason at least the current will travel to ground rather than flow through out the tank.
Robert