help from the pool experts please

[dbook]

Brain,
Here’s a question I placed in another tread, hoping for an answer. But YOU are just the guy to ask this question to –

Where should the GFCI be located for a pool. In Phx we have 1000000’s of pools but no 2 seem to be alike. Today I saw an older pool (25 years) and it had no GFCI anywhere I could see. All the pool electrical was in a sub panel. The light and pump motor breakers where there with a couple of other breakers. While everything worked as expected, there was not a GFCI anywhere. The grounding wire was connected to the pump and to the concrete base. The metal pole with the hot lead inside had a weather proof cover, leading to the motor and a switch for the pump. The timer was at the electrical service panel on the wall of the house. A metal conduit ran under ground to the filter/pump area.

In pools with a GFCI, they haven’t been connected to the pool pump, just a receptacle at the pool filter/pump motor. Shouldn’t the GFCI protect the pool pump also?

Question #2 - I was asked the other day by a buyer if the garbage disposal was protected by a GFCI breaker. I was dumb-founded, thought about my answer and replied no; but didn’t exactly know why not. The receptacles in the kitchen were protected by the necessary GFCIs. She stated that when she is finished washing dishes, or cleaning veggies, etc, she always runs the garbage disposal and could the water on her hand get into the receptacle when she turns it on and shock her. I told her I didn’t think so but would find out.

SO I’m finding out.

Any one want to chime in????

Thanks for the help…

Brain, see you at the auto cross on Sunday?

Doug

[Brian E. Kelly]

In pools with a GFCI, they haven’t been connected to the pool pump, just a receptacle at the pool filter/pump motor. Shouldn’t the GFCI protect the pool pump also?

No because the pool piping is plastic.
I look for the pool light GFCI until I am tired of looking for it, when I can not locate it I write it up. If it is there and I was too stupid to find it, so what. If it is not there and/or there and not functioning, then it should be fixed.

See you Sunday Doug, bring me a Cigar.