GROUNDING PROBES- useful or useless and pros & cons

There is a mild current flowing through my system. im confused on buying a grounding probe since iv been reading many forums on it. some say is useless and some says its a must.. would like to know about it. also would like to know how to attach (please show with pics or vids). i wana buy 1 asap if usefull......

 

I got one a few months ago, when I reached into my sump and got zapped. Wasnt bad, but it still hurt, really made me worry about my fish and corals. All it is is a small titanium rod that you attach under the water with a suction cup, you plug it in on the wall, if you look at the plug only the round one in the middle is metal and the other two are plastic, this is what grounds the water. This is a good temp fix, but you should really find out what is causing the fault. I had a UV sterilizer (submariner piece of crap) that was shorting out.

 

If you use a grounding probe, you are just delaying the voltage leak, when the ground rod falls out, it will not be pretty, unless of course you use a GFCI outlet, that will shut down power if there is a leak

 

I've been a commercial electrician for 15yrs and I use one as a safety feature. Let me tell you electricity can do strange things other than dead shorts such as magnetic fields so why not have the peace of mind to send all stray voltage to earth. If you know you have voltage in the tank find the faulty equipment and replace it, but to say there useless imo is incorrect. Gfci and ground probes work in two different ways and ea have there place in a tank. Just make sure your gfci protected (trips if you have a bad earth bond being it detects voltage variation going back on the neutral) use a ground probe (stray voltage goes to earth), no faulty equipment in the tank to create the voltage in the first place and your safe.

 

so if i buy a grounding probe with just eye and no plug, where should i connect th eye? to the wall or to a 3pin plug earthing and connect to the socket? im confused. the prob is that in india i dont get good quality pumps, i bought 5 diff. but all are having the same prob. i have 2yr old fish and its still doing fine and the corals too. this time im going for expensive fishes so was asking....

 

I'm will look up your electrical system in India and see if I can make sense of it for you. I'm not sure what you mean by "eye". Our ground probes here is simply a corded end you plug into the wall, thats all you do is plug the plug end into the wall and drop the probe end into the tank, mines in the sump because thats where all my equipment is.
I'll look at india now

 

Alright bro, India runs on 230v at 50hz out of phase residential instead of here in the states where we run 120v at 60hz out of phase. Here's a link and hope you have one of these two outlets as this is what im going off. Simply find India in the left column and it shows you a type "c" outlet which is ungrounded and a type "D" outlet which is grounded.
Electrical Receptacles, Electrical Outlets, Electrical Plugs, Adapter Plugs

Now, Only type "D" outlet will do you any good as type "c" doesn't have a ground wire. If you can't find a ground probe to work with your plug configuration type "D" then simply cut the plug end off the probe well after the tank and extend the probe wire with a copper wire #12 awg. To do this you simply wire nut the two wires together and take the extended lead to earth somewhere somehow if there is not a ground anywhere in your wiring system.
Finding a adapter kit for when people travel may also be a good option for you, then you can plug the probe into the adapter and the adapter into the wall outlet but only if you have the type "D" configuration.

 

here is what im gona buy: fresh 'n' marine aQuarium Singapore

 

here is my new tank: http://www.3reef.com/forums/show-of...g-reef-tank-12g-sump-start-finish-136389.html

 

First off thats a sweet tank bro, second off I see the eyelet now. The eyelet looks like it is designed to be connected to the ground screw on the outlet. Remove the ground screw from the outlet... slip the eyelet over the threads of the screw... install the screw back into the outlet. Above all make sure it's the ground screw you connect the probe to!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!