Above ground pool questions

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I have an above ground pool wiring job and have two points of confusion. The pool is 28' diameter and more than 42" deep, so it is not a "storable" pool. The shell is metal as well as the top and bottom tracks and the support struts around the perimeter. The owner wants the pump and heater installed close to his house and then wants to run water feed and return PVC lines from the filter/heater to the pool. The distance from the filter and heater to the pool wall is 20' minimum. This is my first install where the filter and heater weren't out near the pool. Question one: with the filter/heater so far away, am I missing anything special that would have to be done? I assume I still need the convenience receptacle within 20' of the pool even though the filter receptacle is further away than this. I also assume I still need to bond the filter/heater to the pool wall. Am I missing anything? Second issue: the pool installer left the plastic covers off the bottom of the support struts around the perimeter of the pool. He told the owner that those couldn't go on until the "electrical was complete". This has to be a bonding issue, but doesn't 680 say running one 8 to the wall of the pool is what is required? Does the 8 need to run around the perimeter of the pool and hit every strut? The components are all bolted together and should be bonded through the connection hardware. Am I missing something here? I really appreciate any feedback on my questions. This site is a really great resource.
 
Thanks for the link. That's actually where I started for the bonding issue. 680.26.C.2 says "the walls of a bolted or welded metal permanently installed pool". My confusion is in the fact that if the entire metal pool structure is connected through metal connection hardware, it is essentially one large single metal unit so why wouldn't attaching at one location to the metal structure be all that is necessary? I know I'm basing this on a second hand comment from a pool installer, maybe he was lazy or it was getting late and he just didn't want to finish the job. I can't understand why he'd leave them off and blame it on electrical reasons.
 
Sometimes some like to bond the pool if a few spots but it's not required as long as the pool is all metal connected you only have to bond one spot.
 
Lucas check for continuity between sections of track, about a year ago I bonded a pool , I was able to bond the bottom track because the pool guys had the wrong size pool walls ,I thought great I'll hit 4/5 times and then to the pump. After the pool was up I checked for cont. between the top track and bottom ,...nothing so I ran a # 8 from the bottom trac I figured great that will do it . Nope the only sections that were bonded were those that had a connection to the # 8 . In this case the uprights were plastic but there was still no continuity between sections of track.
 
Hey M.D. thanks for the reply. I must say you hit it on the head. I ran the 8 from the bolted seam on the pool wall to the filter and the heater and then checked for cont. Some of the bottom tracks had cont and some didn't. All of the struts had cont and the top rail also had cont. Top track was also hit or miss with continuity. I ran 8 from bottom track to bottom track and then to another bolt on the seam. I did the same on the top track. I now have cont on all metal on the pool. I should have noticed this before, but the bottom track and top track are the only components that aren't bolted to the shell so that would explain the lack of cont. As an extra step I ran 8 from one of the struts to the bolted seam also. Had the plastic covers been installed, I could have still did the work, but if it turned out a track joint was at the struts, the plastic would have had to come off. Thanks again for all the input.
 
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