Reddit mentions: The best ground fault circuit interrupter outlets

If you are just going to use a clamp light...I highly recommend this style of clamp grow light on Amazon

In terms of bang for your buck, these are fantastic. They throw a lot of light, and its a nice warm white as opposed to the pink/purple that a lot of grow lights put off. They do get a little warm to the touch (like a dimmed down incandescent light bulb) on the back when they are on...so if kids or pets may be an issue, you might want to go with the long slender tube style grow lights you can find on Amazon as those don't get warm at all. They aren't as bright, but they don't get hot.

The one caveat with this particular light is it doesn't have a timer built in. But I actually prefer that. You can use a simple appliance timer that you can get at any big box home improvement store...or...you can use WIFI outlet plugs that are app controlled from your phone. These have built in timer functionality.

I prefer using the wifi plugs because it gives me more control. Like..say its the summer time, and you don't have your lights running all that much or at all. But, a big day of thunderstorms runs through. You can open the app, turn on the light, and set a countdown timer and the light will turn off after say 6 hours.

There are a lot of grow lights with built in timers on Amazon...but the way those work is say...you turn the light on at 10AM and set it to 8 hours. Well, every day its going to come on at 10AM and run for 8 hours now. That might be all well and good, but what if you stay home sick? Or it's the weekend and you want to use the room without a grow light blaring in your face. Or what if it's a holiday and you don't want the bright light bugging you?

Also...If you are ever in the market for an LED bulb style grow light, SANSI makes the best. This 24 watt grow light is bright as can be. I have one mounted on a tripod speaker stand that I can move around the house to add supplemental light should it be required.

Currently I have one pointed down at some oxalis bulbs that I have growing so that they get a steady 8 hours of direct light per day to help speed up the starting process.

Seriously, why is this still an issue. Please, listen to me and you will never have an item stolen from your garage again..

here are my step to winning this war.

1. There is a $25 wireless camera you can buy at home depot or amazon.
   
2. buy a few smart lights that connect to your wireless. something like this, your choice
   
3. buy a few smart socket plugs that work with wifi
   
4. create an https://ifttt.com/ account and ties all these device together.
   
   So this would be the easy way to do this, my setup is a little more complex but it works like this.
   
   The wyze cam is in the corner of my garage and can see all doors and windows, when it senses movement the camera sends a notice to Ifttt.com which can then simply turn on the lights and I also have an old radio plugged into the smart switches in the on position and they get blasted with a loud radio.
   
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   In my case, I use the wyse to fire a trigger to the lights to alternate the light to blink red and blue, but you dont have to be that fancy as lights and loud AM talk radio will scare away most meth heads.
   
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   So for under $100 you can protect your property while you are away or sleeping.
   
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   Adding this part, I do not work for Wyze, I only use their products. but making this even easier for people is Wyse also makes lightbulbs and will soon be making switches that can trigger off movement in the camera.

I'm glad someone got this brand reversed, I couldn't figure out the esp module and when I went to deep dive, I .... um... totally overheated the esp module and .... everything came off the board :P

I got these originally (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071LLWLLP/) their innards look practically identical to the pictures you posted.


I got a pair of these plugs (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B074YGV2NK) - When I cracked them open the ESP module was on its own daughter board, on pins no less - and could easily be removed, an swapped for the esp12? modules I had on hand, much much much easier to futz with.

i recommend these: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B071LLWLLP/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05__o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I use them on my co2 solenoid and my lights and I love them!

You can buy a little device very cheaply to tell you if three-prong outlets are grounded. If they're probably not even grounded the lazy way (to the outlet box) and simply have a wire missing, you could repair this yourself for <$10.

Obviously two-prong outlets will not be grounded. That's a convenience issue, but not a safety issue. The lack of GFI outlets in the kitchen (or bath, or anywhere near water) could be a safety issue, and that would be the one thing I think it'd be reasonable to ask the landlord to do. GFI outlets are ~$10 apiece and those can safely be grounded to their box as well.

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for but there are much easier solutions out there

Fine, here are 15 A at $8 per and 20 A at $8.83 per. If you shop around the price is really negligible to go from 15 to 20 A. It's definitely not a lot more expensive.

I don’t have any GFCI currently.

If I install one it will be like this

there was another post about ungrounded receptacles on here not to long ago where op was plugging in some audio visual hardware, you could try a Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (https://www.amazon.com/Leviton-N7599-W-SmartLock-Non-Tamper-Resistant-Receptacle/dp/B0088XA58I/ref=zg_bs_6291366011_3/155-7421043-0265359?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=8QBV6N8X5EQY4CPHWC48) Yours will look different than this obviously. Or you could try a easy plug in (https://www.amazon.ca/gp/search/ref=a9_sc_1?rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aground+fault+circuit+interupter+extension+cord&keywords=ground+fault+circuit+interupter+extension+cord&ie=UTF8&qid=1485901665) I've only used the second one for out doors for construction tools and don't know if either would fix your issue.
Do you know for sure that your outlets aren't grounded? And it's not just an issue with your computer as I posted before?

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Indeed, while the NEC states that it is up to 'their' code, it may vary from state to state. In my state I believe that is just fine, however I read that in Washington State, you need a GCFI with tamper resistance to be up to their code. The difference between this, and this

There are a lot of houses in Vancouver with just two pronged outlets. There are also a lot of landlords that are going to do absolutely nothing to fix this. You can replace the outlet with a GFCI outlet (https://www.amazon.ca/BESTTEN-Tamper-Resistant-Receptacle-Indicator-Included/dp/B01MTYDYSM/) It is fairly easy to do yourself, but of course you should have a qualified electrician do it.

GFCI receptacles cost 10$.

https://www.amazon.com/Eaton-Self-Test-Resistant-Receptacle-Wallplate/dp/B0189B79IM/ref=sr_1_5?keywords=GFCI+Receptacle&qid=1556997922&s=gateway&sr=8-5

Two options: rewire everything, or just use GFCIs. You're gonna spend $80 on a ten pack, but it's code for updating homes that don't have Romex with a ground wire, and it's a hell of a lot cheaper than a complete rewire.

Edit: Dunno why I'm getting downvoted. GFCIs are specifically indicated in the NEC for updating an existing 2-wire system. Section 210-7.