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Old 09-12-2010, 11:07 PM
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Did the water drip on the GFI power bar? Shouldn't it have tripped? What brand was it?
it would only trip if the drip created a short to ground. if it was between the hot and common then no trip.

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Old 09-12-2010, 11:19 PM
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Yeah there was no drip it was about 2gallons I estimate my tank was full when I left this morn it's a 33g tank there was about an inch to two inches missing from tank when I got home my own dumb fault though every other bar in the house every one lol screwd on the wall this one on the floor.....murphys law my friends
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Old 09-13-2010, 12:33 AM
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it would only trip if the drip created a short to ground. if it was between the hot and common then no trip.

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Certainly when a powerbar gets wet current will leak to ground. Any ground fault and the GFI trips in 5ms.

The problem could be that he used a GFCI power bar and not a GFCI recepticle. The power bar triped sure but the outlet feeding the powerbar is still going hence if the power bar is really wet and there is still power to the powerbar, this could cause a fire potentially.
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Old 09-13-2010, 12:36 AM
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Old 09-13-2010, 12:44 AM
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that is what the case is regular plug gfi powerbar im surprised it didnt trip the breaker in my house??
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Old 09-13-2010, 12:47 AM
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i got one working again the other is toast lol burned to nothing and half the cord to say the least im changing the socket to gfi tomorrow and upgrading in a powerbar
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Old 09-13-2010, 01:12 AM
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Consider the Gfgi recepticles, they would be a lot more reliable. Rona has them for like $25

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Old 09-13-2010, 01:14 AM
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Wow. Thats a big fear for me too. Wierd though. We had a fire at our LFS just recently too. Powerbar lit up. Cant remember if it was a bad powerhead or water though. Has made me rethink a few things. Just good to hear nothing went down because of it.
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Old 09-13-2010, 01:54 AM
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I know when I took over Blue World, it was a fire waiting to happen. Spent lotsa $$$ for gfgi breakers and such to protect everything/everyone.

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