Getting shock big time HELP PLs!!!!!!!!!!!!

[moe]

well what I learn is that....If your looking for an internal pump, and find one and it's use externally. As good as the price or the offer don't bye it for use as an internal pump.

That should of told me something even if was submergible and being use external.

[Bill S]

Depends whether or not you value your life and that of your livestock over a pump...

Seriously, no. Throw it away.

[JimD]

Save the impeller and the housing, someone else might be able to use them in the future.

[Bill S]

Good point, Jim. They are ALWAYS in demand. I always forget...

[CoryDude]

BTW, all submersible pumps give off some voltage in the water - it's the nature of magnets rotating at high speed.

Aren't we talking mV or (mu)uV amounts?

That's also why you have magnetic fields around electrical cords.

[Bill S]

Actually, it's quite surprising how much voltage they put out - enough to feel it! Before I got a grounding probe, I tried to track down the leak. Turns out each pump was putting it out. With all of the mag pumps I had, it was enough to feel.

[cbianco]

How can we measure stray voltage in our aquarium, WITHOUT putting our hand in it (i.e. voltage meter, etc...)? It seems primitive and dangerous to test our water with our body rather than a device that was meant for testing electrical voltage.

Christopher

[Big_Pun]

When that happens, is it best to trash the pump it or can the koralia be fixed?

sorry it took so long but i trashed it, no way or want to chance it,

[Bill S]

How can we measure stray voltage in our aquarium, WITHOUT putting our hand in it (i.e. voltage meter, etc...)? It seems primitive and dangerous to test our water with our body rather than a device that was meant for testing electrical voltage.

Christopher

Using a Voltage Meter. One end of the probe into the water, the other to the ground on a plug.

[Henny]

well what I learn is that....If your looking for an internal pump, and find one and it's use externally. As good as the price or the offer don't bye it for use as an internal pump.

That should of told me something even if was submersible and being use external.

Is this the Mag 18 that I sold you earlier this year? Because if it is I had know idea that it leaked voltage. I used it externally because at the time I didn't have a true external pump. I only sold it because I went back to my mag 12 that I originally had on the tank. In addition I only sold the Mag 18 for what I paid for it. I'm sorry if this is the case but I did not intentionally sell you a bad pump. I would've just scraped it for parts if that was the case.