Paddy's Ocean - 70 Gallon Mixed Reef **Phoenix Rebuild**

[mike31154]

Originally Posted by paddyob

Not sure what you are asking about with being near the tank... Unless you mean the plug in?

There must be more than one plug in receptacle in the living room other than the one you're using now? How far away from the tank? If too far, then no good since you don't want a long extension cord running along the floor.

Might actually be a good thing that the current one is wired to the kitchen circuit though, because chances are, some of the other plug ins in your living room are on a separate circuit. If so and they're not already loaded up to the allowable power limit, you could run another branch from one of those to a new plug near the tank and have the redundancy of two circuits without having to run a whole new line including circuit breaker.

Probably a good idea to have your electrician buddy to have a look see before you get too far into anything.

[paddyob]

Originally Posted by mike31154

There must be more than one plug in receptacle in the living room other than the one you're using now? How far away from the tank? If too far, then no good since you don't want a long extension cord running along the floor.

Might actually be a good thing that the current one is wired to the kitchen circuit though, because chances are, some of the other plug ins in your living room are on a separate circuit. If so and they're not already loaded up to the allowable power limit, you could run another branch from one of those to a new plug near the tank and have the redundancy of two circuits without having to run a whole new line including circuit breaker.

Probably a good idea to have your electrician buddy to have a look see before you get too far into anything.

This is partially being done out if necessity. I am doing some renos and power
In areas needs turn off.

The plug being used is the only feasable one. Again. I am running directly from the breaker box.

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by paddyob

This is partially being done out if necessity. I am doing some renos and power
In areas needs turn off.

I'm in a similar situation. I ran the electrical to my fishroom first and then ran an extension cord from the fishroom through the floor to my tank upstairs. So the tank upstairs is on a dedicated circuit and I can shut all the other breakers off throughout my reno. Nothing's reliably labelled on my box either so this has made life much easier.

I've since drywalled around and finished around this cord going into my fishroom. It'll have to be cutoff at the end and just left in the walls at this point when I'm done lol.

[paddyob]

I plan to run right into a gangbox or whatnot that will be built into the stand.

Most likely the switches with a plug combo and one for each device. So I run the device plug into the cabinet, plug it in and flick a switch.

No extension cords what so ever. Also plan to seal the cabinet from moisture or potential tank leaks.