Foutains Grounding

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Zane Bailey

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My Question is whether or not the required #8awg equipment grounding conductor (which is connected to the forming shell of a wet or dry niche fixture) needs to be continuous from the service panel to the controller and from the controller to the forming shell on the fixture?

It appears by code that The #8awg has to be installed from the forming shell to the controller, but only has to be #12awg from the controller to the service.

the #12awg would seem to defeat the purposeof having the #8awg in this method, causing a higher impedance from the controller to the service than from the forming shell to the controller/

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The number 8 is bonding the pool, not grounding it.

The 8 AWG bonding conductor has nothing to do with the 12 AWG EGC except that they just happen to connect to each other.

The purpose of the 8 AWG is to keep all the conductive items around the pool (fountain) that people can come in contact with the same potential.
 
Where in part V does it say we must use a #8 to bond?

The FPN on 680.53 says to see 250.122 for bonding.
 
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Dennis Alwon said:
Where in part V does it say we must use a #8 to bond?.
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It guess it doesn't. :D

I was assuming.
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Bonding of fountains

Bonding of fountains

The bonding of fountains is treated differently than the bonding of pools. I guess it is assumed that people are not swimming or entering fountains.
(yet take a stroll by fountains in the summer and tell me you do not see people in some of these fountains)

Bonding of fountains is more in line with standard bonding we provide for equipment, which is to open or facilitate the ocpd.
 
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