Ouch, shocked !!

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Originally Posted by KrazyKuch

Once you've had 600 Volts surge through your body, 120 volts seems like child's play!!!

That is sooo true LOL. 1500v rocks your world too, got some scars to prove that. LOL

How old are your pumps? Id be calling Tunze. 35v leakage is NOT COOL. Sounds like the case on the pump has a defect in it, expoing the windings to the water. If the GFCI tripped plugging the Tunze in when ground probe installed.

The light shade should be grounded, and you stated that you got shocked with light out as well, so I could rule the light out. I have seen instances in HO-T12 lights, where the ballast would induce 40-50V into the reflector/shade. But that was with a Magnetic ballast installed in the light, inducing a voltage into the shade, not acctually shorting or leaking. Anything that has a magnetic field, can induce electricity into metal near it.

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Hey there doug just reading your post and may be you should check your GFI plug to make sure that it is grounded first off , if not its just like a normal plug

GFI only compares the current through the 'hot' wire against the current in the 'Neutral', if the current through them is different as in some current is leaking to ground, the GFI detects the difference and trips, so it actually doesnt need the ground connection to work its just safer to have it properly grounded as this will reduce the shock risk for a person handling the device.