Originally Posted By: jpeck This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
jpope wrote:
All equipment should be bonded as well as all metal within 10 feet of the water including window frames, slides, diving boards etc.
All fixed metal, 4" or greater in the least dimension, within 5 feet horizontally of the pool water and within 12 feet vertically above the overflow level of the pool (or a higher raised spa if you have, like we have down here, raised spas attached to the pool).
Think of it as a box you place over the pool, 10 feet larger than the pool (5 feet on each side and end) and 12 feet high. Any metal in that 'box' needs to be bonded back to the pool steel as a common bonding grid. Each one, individually, does not need to go back to the pool steel, but needs to be bonded to a bond which does go back to the pool steel.
As well as all electrical associated with the water circulating system (the pool pump, spa pump, waterfall pump, etc.).
Originally Posted By: hgordon This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I understand that…but my question is this…
There are 2 pumps serving the pool...one is serves the main function, and the other is used to supply the "spa bubbles". The latter of the two did not have a bond wire attached to its bonding lug...does it need to have a separate bond wire to the first pump?
Originally Posted By: jpope This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
It needs to be bonded, yes.
A bonding wire directly to the other pump is not necessarily the only correct means. A bonding wire to other properly bonded equipment would suffice as well.
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