deepthreat
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Okay, here is the scenario. I ran a line for an above ground pool motor the other day, I brought the feed up into a metal FS box next to the pump motor, with a twist lock recptacle, fed from a ground fault recptacle nearby. When I originally looked at the job, I was looking to see what needed to be bonded to the pump motor. All the pool supports were made of fiberglass, the pool ladder is fiberglass, there was no other metal in the vicinity with the exception of the actual pool wall, which seemed to have some sort of plastic coating on it. I got a call from the home owner today who told me the inspection failed, the bonding was inadequate. I thought about it for a while, It must have been the pool wall, but how do you attach a lug to the wall of a pool without putting a hole in the pool. Then it hit me. I used a ground rod with a threaded connector specific for the purpose of attaching to a box for support (I can't remember their name right now). It was threaded into the rear hub of the FS box. Now I grounded the FS box with the ground wire from the feed, wrapping the bare copper around the ground screw and then taking it unbroken to the ground screw on the recptacle. Since the box and recptacle are grounded, and the box connector is threaded to the box and attached directly to the sunken rod, and the motor is plugged into the twist lock thereby taking that same ground into the motor, I thought it should all be at the same potential. Should I also have taken a #8 from the motor lug to the ground rod support. I can't think of anything else I missed. Any advice would be appreciated.