AboveGround Pool

[scubad3932]

It has a small 120V twist plug cord pump. Does it have to have a ground rod, no other metal equipment is around that has to be bonded. Grass and sand is all that is around the pool. What should I bond the pump to? The inspector is asking for a earth ground??

 

[sparky59]

the motor is bonded to the metal ring at the bottom of the pool. the only ground required is the egc going back to the house. a ground rod isn't required....so you and the inspector will have to talk about that.

 

[benaround]

scubad,

What is holding the sides of the pool together, most of the time the structural part is made of metal, this needs bonded to the lug on the motor.

 

[scubad3932]

No metal

No metal

I think I am going to have to have a little talk to the inspector. There is no metal holding the pool together, its a new heavy duty plastic. I asked the manufacture if there was any metal that was installed.

Thanks for the tips, I thought it trying to have a earth ground was not neccessery.