Cleveland Apprentice
Senior Member
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- Cleveland, Oh
Hi,
I'm a little confused about running a new circuit for a outside pool motor. I understand it must be in conduit with insulated green egc, there must be a single receptacle, and the circuit must be protected by gfci circuit breaker. My question is if it's permissible to run 12/2 romex to the outside wall of house then transition to pvc conduit with THWN conductors to the pool motor 10' away. It sounds like it must be in conduit all the way back to the electrical panel but for some reason it seems like overkill to use conduit inside basement on the ceiling instead of romex. The pool motor is 115 volt, 11 fla.
By the way, the panel is Federal Pacific and HO doesn't want it changed out. I bought a FP breaker from Home Depot. Unfortunately FP doesn't make a gfci breaker that I know of so I have to run it to a dead front gfci before running the circuit outside.
thanks
I'm a little confused about running a new circuit for a outside pool motor. I understand it must be in conduit with insulated green egc, there must be a single receptacle, and the circuit must be protected by gfci circuit breaker. My question is if it's permissible to run 12/2 romex to the outside wall of house then transition to pvc conduit with THWN conductors to the pool motor 10' away. It sounds like it must be in conduit all the way back to the electrical panel but for some reason it seems like overkill to use conduit inside basement on the ceiling instead of romex. The pool motor is 115 volt, 11 fla.
By the way, the panel is Federal Pacific and HO doesn't want it changed out. I bought a FP breaker from Home Depot. Unfortunately FP doesn't make a gfci breaker that I know of so I have to run it to a dead front gfci before running the circuit outside.
thanks