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Old 03-20-2008, 01:25 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by intermediate_noob View Post
So wow that is confusing without a picture. I will try to post one tonight. Basically all I was saying is that with a single GFCI, if it trips, everything goes down. I added a secondary precaution to keep my pump and heater going. Thoughts on this?

My thoughts are that you thought it out better than I did. By making two different circuits as you did, you are less likely to have a complete outage. Nothing wrong with overdoing electrical at all with regards to splitting things up and minimizing your points of failure.

I might add another GFI now and tie it into the switch I am going to use for the filters and heaters.

Actually, it would probably be OPTIMAL to have two seperate circuits for each filter and heater. That way if there was a ground fault on one circuit, the other would remain up and running.

Very good points.
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