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Is it a GFI outlet or a breaker inside the power panel that's tripping?

 

If it's a gfci, make sure you have your line and load wires correct.

 

If a GFI outlet trips, it doesn't necessarily mean that it's overloaded. In fact, it usually means that you have a faulty piece of equipment plugged into it. Since it just started recently, I suspect something in your system has degraded and is starting to go bad. Light ballasts are notorious for tripping GFI's. If you have LED's, then it's more likely a pump motor or a heater. It may be a hassle, but the best way to figure it out is by moving plugs to different outlets until you isolate the one that's causing the trips. Having 2 GFI outlets will make the process quite a bit easier.

The cheap GFI outlets do go bad occasionally, but it's not likely to be a problem with the outlet itself or the wiring in your house, so an electrician probably can't help you much.

 

If your fluorescent tubes aren't starting up properly, there's a very high probability that's what's causing your problems.

Without getting too technical,, a spark of electricity has to jump all the way from one end of the tube to the other to get it to light up. The ballast stores up a lot of energy, then releases it all at once to create that spark. After the tube is lit, essentially you're looking at a bolt of lightning traveling from one end to the other. When the tube won't start, the ballast keeps trying, and continues to release that energy over and over again. Those sudden, brief power surges are exactly what GFI outlets were designed to prevent.

What most people don't know is that a fluorescent tube probably uses about 10 x more power on startup than it does once it's lit, so if you have a tube that's flickering you're wasting a lot of electricity. It's not just the tube that can cause this. Bad ballasts or bad fixture contacts can produce the same results. If a tube doesn't have near perfect connections to the fixture, the high startup energy will generate a lot of heat at the bad contacts and burn them up very quickly. Salt residue causes chemical reactions with metal that can quite easily degrade the contacts. That's one of the main reasons I chose LED's.

This is more information than you probably needed or wanted, but for some reason I felt like over sharing today. Good luck, and I hope this helps. It sounds like you're well on the way to getting your issues resolved.

 

It could also be a weak gfci outlet aswell very easy to change. Also is your tank grounded if it is remove the the ground and use a volt meter to check for stray voltage. Can narrow it down by turning 1 thing on at a time.

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I'm not following whats the 1.2 than?

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I would change the outlet. Also never hurts to put new bulbs in either

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Are you switching any pumps on/off? I have a small Sicce from a BioCube on a switched outlet that I use for maintenance reasons, and it will often trip my GFCI when i flip the switch to "off"