Rhp and gfci ?

[classdwhite]

I need to get my setup running tonight and was reading the directions of my propriducts rhp says a gfci is required in. "High humidity applications" is 50% ish humidity considered high? Anyone else using a rhp and have it plugged into a standard outlet. (With a thermostat of course)?? Is this safe? PP is closed til tomorrow so I can't get answers from them

[jclaiborne]

I had a helix RHP installed in my cage that i keep at 60% humidity plugged into a regular outlet without issue...HOWEVER that doesnt mean it was correct...if the instructions say to use a GFI then i would just to cover your bases. If you need to get it going tonight you could run to home depot or something similar and buy an outlet that has the "test/reset" buttons and just swap the outlets out. These act just lile gfi breakers but you dont have to mess with your breaker panel

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[AlexisFitzy]

What kind of heat panel are you using? Where did you get it from? I've never heard of anyone having this problem before.


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[classdwhite]

It's s proproducts heat panel. I'm gonna call them in a few. I'm terrified I'll burn my house down.

[AlexisFitzy]

Oh sorry you said that in your original post..it's been a long day lol. And I've never ever heard of this being a problem with pro products rhp's. I have one and I just plugged it into my thermostat and it's working perfectly these things are specifically made for reptiles and since reptiles thrive in a humid environment I seriously doubt that humidity would damage this in any way. Lots of people on this forum use pro products heat panels and I've never heard of humidity damaging anyone's panel. That's just my opinion though. I wouldn't worry about it. But please share what they tell you once they give you a call I'd love to know what they say.


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[Darkbird]

I'm by no means an expert, but this sound like one of those warning thing they put in almost any electronic or electrical item to help try and cover their butt in the event of a lawsuit. Short of having water running off of the rhp, not sure how you could hurt it.

[norwegn113]

I'm by no means an expert, but this sound like one of those warning thing they put in almost any electronic or electrical item to help try and cover their butt in the event of a lawsuit. Short of having water running off of the rhp, not sure how you could hurt it.

I have to agree with Darkbird here. Anytime a company is dealing in any type of electrical components and moisture , they have to tell you to have it GFCI protected. if they didnt they would be opening themselves up for a lawsuit. I will say this, after being in the building trades for almost 20 years , it is never a bad idea to plug a gfci inline of a rhp. consider it an insurance policy. Now in the real world I own 7 Pro Products RHP's and none of them are connected to a GFCI. I have been running them for almost 1 1/2 years in humidity as high as 80% during sheds and neither I nor my animals have had issues of being electrocuted. By all means contact Bob at pro products and see what he has to say . He is a great guy to chat with! Best of luck with your new RHP ( i think you are gonna love it

[OhhWatALoser]

Lawsuit protection? As an electrician, I have never once noticed any plug and play item say anything about being gfci protected, have I been that oblivious? It also calls out only high humidity application, so it really doesn't legally protect much in my eyes, if your going for legal protection why not just require it for all applications? I kinda want to open a panel now and see wth they got going on in there, reading that makes me uneasy actually.

It also just doesn't seem like a good scenario, if the humidity really causes problems, gfci trips and no one get hurt, but you still lose your heat and the only way to fix the solution is to lower the humidity? The panel can't be sealed or the exposed electrical connections at least?

[Mr. Misha]

I wouldnt be too worried about having it plugged in into a normal outlet. I have both a proheat and rb heat pannels connected to a herpstat 4 thats connected to a normal outlet and nothing ever happened.

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