Preping the tank for a 4 week vacation

[vic622]

Originally Posted by Albertan22

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Another idea that I've tossing around is maybe putting a heater and several air stones into the DT and powering them from a separate breaker. That way, if the breaker or GFI trips on the regular plug for the tank, I'd at least have heat and oxygen in the tank until my tank sitter arrives and sets things right. These wouldn't be on a GFI though. Would this be a good idea? Am I being paranoid? I've never had problems with triped breakers or GFIs in the past, but better safe than sorry right?

I went to the hardware store and bought a regular GFCI socket, a wall plug box (a plastic one if you can find it) and cut off about 1ft off the end of a 3-prong extension cord (male end).
I ran the cord through one of the knock outs, wired the GFCI onto the extension cord and secured it to the box.
The GFCI even comes with the cover plate.

Voila, instant GFCI protection!
It works, too!
When my Mag 7 crattered 2 months ago, it kept tripping the GFCI and that's how I figured out there was a problem.
Vic
PS: a tip from Holmes on Holmes: Don't feed a GFCI from a circuit that already has a GFCI (like at the breaker). One trips the other and they won't work.
Here's some pic's: