REMEMBER TO UNPLUG YOUR EQUIPMENTS!!!!!
I just had a horrific experience and couldn't help but to share with everyone here, so that this doesn't happen with anyone else.
We just installed new security sensor lights around the house, and we hired a "professional" (you'll see why I put it in " " soon) to take care of it. To make it look clean, he said it was necessary to mess with the wirings that were running inside one of the walls.
This happens to be the same wall where my 30 gallon setup was plugged into. Not knowing anything, I left all the equipments plugged in. I normally use surge protector, but didn't have it at the time as this was only few days after we moved to the new house and the surge protector was nowhere to be found.
Until this moment, I don't exactly know what this "professional" did to the wring, but when I came back home that night, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that used electricity was BLOWN out. CF light fixture, heater, powerheads, pumps, etc. EVERYTHING BLOWN OUT. The ballast for the light fixture smelled like BBQ. Of course, when I confronted the "professional", he said he had nothing to do with it. How did I know he was going to say that...
I rushed to the LFS, bought two T5 bulbs to put under the old fixture, bought one of those small HOB filter (because I like little bit of medium), bought two powerheads to add some serious waterflow, and bought a small cheap heater. Fortunately, I have a new tank ready to be setup, so I bought all these as a "temporary stop-the-bleeding" measure.
Please remember my horrific experience and use surge protector, and whenever you mess with electricity, unplug your equipments.
Good day everyone!
I just had a horrific experience and couldn't help but to share with everyone here, so that this doesn't happen with anyone else.
We just installed new security sensor lights around the house, and we hired a "professional" (you'll see why I put it in " " soon) to take care of it. To make it look clean, he said it was necessary to mess with the wirings that were running inside one of the walls.
This happens to be the same wall where my 30 gallon setup was plugged into. Not knowing anything, I left all the equipments plugged in. I normally use surge protector, but didn't have it at the time as this was only few days after we moved to the new house and the surge protector was nowhere to be found.
Until this moment, I don't exactly know what this "professional" did to the wring, but when I came back home that night, ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING that used electricity was BLOWN out. CF light fixture, heater, powerheads, pumps, etc. EVERYTHING BLOWN OUT. The ballast for the light fixture smelled like BBQ. Of course, when I confronted the "professional", he said he had nothing to do with it. How did I know he was going to say that...
I rushed to the LFS, bought two T5 bulbs to put under the old fixture, bought one of those small HOB filter (because I like little bit of medium), bought two powerheads to add some serious waterflow, and bought a small cheap heater. Fortunately, I have a new tank ready to be setup, so I bought all these as a "temporary stop-the-bleeding" measure.
Please remember my horrific experience and use surge protector, and whenever you mess with electricity, unplug your equipments.
Good day everyone!
