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Basically had an electrician come out
recomendation was a 15amp gfci outlet
Would assume that should handle what i run my 120 off
going to 180gallon and a dedicated circuit for my tank
i agree with the last post up it to a #12 wire and 20 amp circuit, have them put the receptacle away from the tank if possible, and i prefer no gfci recptacles in case it trips on you and leaves your tank off, but thats your call i always feel better with no gfci and the plug on the other wall and hide cords and power/surge protector on the wall in loom/ wire mouldBasically had an electrician come out
recomendation was a 15amp gfci outlet
Would assume that should handle what i run my 120 off
going to 180gallon and a dedicated circuit for my tank
What have you decided?Basically had an electrician come out
recomendation was a 15amp gfci outlet
Would assume that should handle what i run my 120 off
going to 180gallon and a dedicated circuit for my tank
I agree with the upped circuit for total load.FWIW, you really only need 1 GFCI per circuit, not 1 per device. I'd go with a GFCI/AFCI breaker rather than GFCI outlet (the outlets have a poor reputation for performance/reliability compared with breakers). I'd also agree that going with a 20Amp circuit is well worth the few extra dollars.
I agree with the upped circuit for total load.
I'll argue that my system with a GFCI for each in-water hardware item is not a waste of time or money.
If my heaters blow their circuit, the return pump still runs etc.
Worth it to have each wet hardware unit on it's own GFCI if you have room and can stomach the initial cost.
Out of curiosity, do you have your outlets wired so that if one trips, the downstream outlets don't trip as well? I would imagine that this is possible, I've just never seen it done.
Out of curiosity, do you have your outlets wired so that if one trips, the downstream outlets don't trip as well? I would imagine that this is possible, I've just never seen it done.
I think what you're looking for is a pigtail for each circuit. If you don't daisy chain the receptacles then each receptacle gets like a home run. It's a lot more work, but that's how I did my whole house, makes troubleshooting receptacles much easier. But you can run into box fill issues that way which isn't to code.
Normally a gfci has all the receptacles downstream daisy chained. If you use pigtails you'd lose the protection, but then you can use individual gfcis like greg did.
Greg's set up is the gold standard and I wish I had seen that before I wired mine up!