electric problem!!!!

[Ty1981]

Anyone know why my coralife pc fixture keeps tripping my plug when it turns off?? Pls help.. thank you. Or txt me at 210 606 7474.

[BBQHILLBILLY]

It shorts when turn off, but does fine when on?

[Ty1981]

Yes its fine when I turn on again

[BBQHILLBILLY]

temp fix, can you leave fixture switch on and plug into its own surge protector, and use that switch on surge protector to turn on and off?

[Ty1981]

Its on a surge protector sir..

[BBQHILLBILLY]

yes but can you turn off with surge protector without shorting

[FireWater]

Ok, so the light is tripping the safety device on the surge protector? If so then the surge protector is doing its job. Also, be advised that they are not designed to function repeatedly over long periods of time and may fail.

Sounds like you have a short in the fixture itself which can happen with age and corrosion. If it were my light I would try another surge to see if it trips and I would also pull the cover off the light to look for damage and/or corrosion to the wiring in the fixture.

Don't ignore the problem.

[Ty1981]

Ok I will double check..

[BBQHILLBILLY]

im texting with him

power cord, switch, ballast, pc bulbs

Its not the switch

he tried different switch, he has 2bulbs working, correction maybe 3 lol

[Ty1981]

3 bulbs working now woohoo. Now the last bulb is making it trip... Y'all think ballast

[Ty1981]

Ok got it working but I tried it on of the plug without the gfi and it worked witoit tripping why is that?

[Ty1981]

Ok tried a different plug in the house without a gfi and guess what it worked...

[jrossjr79]

have you tried with just the last bulb plugged in the GFI?

[Ty1981]

Yes I did didn't trip.. with 1. You think gfi can't take the load of all 4 the bulbs?

[Ty1981]

Guess its my GFI. Tried on another GFI it tripped it...

[ClamFan]

Sounds to me like a bad ground. Check for corrosion around any connections to the case. I had that problem once. Just cleaned it up and it stopped tripping.

[Ty1981]

I cleaned all the corrosions to all the plugs. I pluged it to a power strip and didn't trip.

[joelb]

when you dont clean salt creep off your light you trip your outlets, when you trip outlets your alarm doesnt go off, when your alarm doesnt go off you get fired from your job, when you get fired from your job, your wife has to get a 2nd job at a bar, when your wife works at a bar, she comes home with a random tattoos.... dont make your wife get neck tattoos, clean your lights every once in a while :)

[allan]

when you dont clean salt creep off your light you trip your outlets, when you trip outlets your alarm doesnt go off, when your alarm doesnt go off you get fired from your job, when you get fired from your job, your wife has to get a 2nd job at a bar, when your wife works at a bar, she comes home with a random tattoos.... dont make your wife get neck tattoos, clean your lights every once in a while :)

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Ha ha ha bwaahahaha


Giggle


Perfect! :-)

[Scutterborn]

Girls with tats are hot. The more the better. I'm never cleaning my lights now...


-Ben-

[allan]

Hah, you're gonna end up with dead coral and Josie still won't have a tat. :-)

[Scutterborn]

Hah, you're gonna end up with dead coral and Josie still won't have a tat. :-)

You're probably correct. 😎


-Ben-

[Ty1981]

Got new light fixture instead...