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So woke up this morning to my girlfriend yelling fire and the smoke alarms going off. My mistake almost cost us my tank, our house....our lives. I cannot stress this enough, this way my mistake and 100% avoidable if i had added a drip loop to my power cables. I bought a cheap ato, first mistake, put it on my tank in a hurry since i was going out of town, second mistake. No drip loop. Third mistake. Ato failed and over filled tanked causing water to run down straight into a surge protector. It caught fire. Thank God my girl was up. It didn't trip the breaker until i grabbed it to run outside. Causing a slight shock but a burn and discomfort to save everything else I'll take it. No one ever wants to spend a ton of money, we all want cheap. I'm here to say you can go cheap but do it safely. Add drip loops, dont go cheap on things like power strips, surge protectors...ato's.