Trip lite power strip

Scubajoe1 · 06/18/2015, 03:20 PM

Does anyone have any experience with the trip lite safety power strip? Twice now I have come home to fine the safety switch on the part that plugs into the wall has tripped. It is rated for 15 amps and I am rarely going above 5 amps based on my apex. I am not sure why it is tripping. I talked to apex and they suggested putting my two heaters into position 4-4 and 4-8. Well I did that and that means I had to move my top off aqualifter to 4-3. MISTAKE. I vaguely recalled reading something about that but I figured that Neptune tech support would have warned me again. Anyway my phone was going nuts today because my conductivity was decreasing below my alarm set point. I went home and sure enough the aqualifeter was still trying to add fresh water even though the controller said off. Turns out you can't put something of very low current draw in the 1-3 or 5-7. Anyway, disaster averted but when I go back I need to figure out why my trip lite is tripping. I cannot have this happen when I am out of the country or gone overnight. Any suggestions? I am thinking of cutting off the safety end and just adding a normal plug.

Thanks

Joe

RingingEars · 06/18/2015, 03:51 PM

I use Tripp-Lite and Furman on all my AV and stereo gear(some expensive tube gears) and just bought another Tripp-lite for my new reef. So I have some years using their products. They make very trust worthy surge and noise filter products. Of course you can get a faulty unit with anything, but yeah. Those are the only two company's I trust with my gear.
What model Tripp-lite do you have?

Scubajoe1 · 06/18/2015, 07:34 PM

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RingingEars · 06/19/2015, 03:11 PM

Hmmm. Looks like a good indoor/outdoor unit.
I would try to trip it to see. Plug your reef into something else temporarily and take the tripp-lite out to garage and plug some power tools into it and run them and see if it trips.

Scubajoe1 · 06/19/2015, 06:36 PM

I had two people tell me now that plugs like this with the GFI on the plug tend to trip. Going to cut it off, put on a regular plug and change out my 15 amp breaker for a GFI breaker

06/18/2015, 03:20 PM	#1
Scubajoe1 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 409	Trip lite power strip Does anyone have any experience with the trip lite safety power strip? Twice now I have come home to fine the safety switch on the part that plugs into the wall has tripped. It is rated for 15 amps and I am rarely going above 5 amps based on my apex. I am not sure why it is tripping. I talked to apex and they suggested putting my two heaters into position 4-4 and 4-8. Well I did that and that means I had to move my top off aqualifter to 4-3. MISTAKE. I vaguely recalled reading something about that but I figured that Neptune tech support would have warned me again. Anyway my phone was going nuts today because my conductivity was decreasing below my alarm set point. I went home and sure enough the aqualifeter was still trying to add fresh water even though the controller said off. Turns out you can't put something of very low current draw in the 1-3 or 5-7. Anyway, disaster averted but when I go back I need to figure out why my trip lite is tripping. I cannot have this happen when I am out of the country or gone overnight. Any suggestions? I am thinking of cutting off the safety end and just adding a normal plug. Thanks Joe __________________ Scubajoe 180 Gallon reef tank with coast to coast Herbie overflow. 60 Gallon sump with 9" filter sock. 36" lifereef skimmer, activated carbon filter. Emperor Aquatics 40W UV Sterilizer Current Tank Info: 180 gallon reed tank, coast to coast overflow, herbie overflow. Life reef sump and 36" life reef skimmer, GHL Doser 2, Neptune Apex reef controller, Auto topoff, Spectrapure RO system with a Tunze RO controller. activated carbon and no more GFO.

06/18/2015, 07:34 PM	#3
Scubajoe1 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 409	Tlm825gf __________________ Scubajoe 180 Gallon reef tank with coast to coast Herbie overflow. 60 Gallon sump with 9" filter sock. 36" lifereef skimmer, activated carbon filter. Emperor Aquatics 40W UV Sterilizer Current Tank Info: 180 gallon reed tank, coast to coast overflow, herbie overflow. Life reef sump and 36" life reef skimmer, GHL Doser 2, Neptune Apex reef controller, Auto topoff, Spectrapure RO system with a Tunze RO controller. activated carbon and no more GFO.

06/19/2015, 06:36 PM	#5
Scubajoe1 Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2015 Location: Raleigh, NC Posts: 409	I had two people tell me now that plugs like this with the GFI on the plug tend to trip. Going to cut it off, put on a regular plug and change out my 15 amp breaker for a GFI breaker __________________ Scubajoe 180 Gallon reef tank with coast to coast Herbie overflow. 60 Gallon sump with 9" filter sock. 36" lifereef skimmer, activated carbon filter. Emperor Aquatics 40W UV Sterilizer Current Tank Info: 180 gallon reed tank, coast to coast overflow, herbie overflow. Life reef sump and 36" life reef skimmer, GHL Doser 2, Neptune Apex reef controller, Auto topoff, Spectrapure RO system with a Tunze RO controller. activated carbon and no more GFO.

06/18/2015, 03:51 PM	#2
RingingEars Because they ring Join Date: May 2015 Location: Rathdrum ID Posts: 113	I use Tripp-Lite and Furman on all my AV and stereo gear(some expensive tube gears) and just bought another Tripp-lite for my new reef. So I have some years using their products. They make very trust worthy surge and noise filter products. Of course you can get a faulty unit with anything, but yeah. Those are the only two company's I trust with my gear. What model Tripp-lite do you have?

06/19/2015, 03:11 PM	#4
RingingEars Because they ring Join Date: May 2015 Location: Rathdrum ID Posts: 113	Hmmm. Looks like a good indoor/outdoor unit. I would try to trip it to see. Plug your reef into something else temporarily and take the tripp-lite out to garage and plug some power tools into it and run them and see if it trips.