Stray voltage in a localized area of tank

[Nordy]

Thank you for answering.

The tingle you felt was induced voltage exciting the raw skin in your cut. If it were actual fault current from a device, it would have caused the GFCi to trip when you put your hand in the water.

Moreover, you said that you have a ground probe in the tank. If there was fault current, this would have tripped the GFCI before you put your hand in the tank,

Plug everything back into the GFCI please.

I never could really grasp electricity. The saying you can cook a man’s dinner with electricity and you can also cook the man, is my limited scope on it. I have a strong suspicion something is amuck with that GFCI outlet. With a grounding probe in the tank, it should trip that GFCI outlet, correct? I bought a voltage multimeter and it came with a separate pen like voltage tester. Instead of testing one piece of equipment with the black in the ground and the red probe in water, I used the pen like voltage tester to test each piece of electrical equipment, one at a time. Was this suitable? Thinking it through now I should have used the multimeter on everything, but my time has been required elsewhere this past week with job and life. Anyone one piece of equipment that was plugged into the GFCI caused it to light up red with the alarm sounding. No red light warnings or I haven’t felt voltage shock since changing outlets. I appreciate all the input.

 

[BeanAnimal]

I never could really grasp electricity.

There a puny joke there somewhere but I am too lazy this evening.

The saying you can cook a man’s dinner with electricity and you can also cook the man, is my limited scope on it.

You can thank Edison for that.

I have a strong suspicion something is amuck with that GFCI outlet. With a grounding probe in the tank, it should trip that GFCI outlet, correct?

Yes, if there is a fault.

I bought a voltage multimeter and it came with a separate pen like voltage tester. Instead of testing one piece of equipment with the black in the ground and the red probe in water, I used the pen like voltage tester to test each piece of electrical equipment, one at a time. Was this suitable?

No, other than telling you what equipment is adding to induced voltage (meter). The pen reads voltage by induction… well capacitive coupling if we are being technical.


Unless the multimeter reads ~90 or more volts from water to ground, the results are pretty useless.