GFCI For Pool Pump

[volt102]

2008 NEC......680.22(B)......Does the new wording really require the hard-wired pool pump to be ground fault protected?

 

[iwire]

2008 NEC......680.22(B)......Does the new wording really require the hard-wired pool pump to be ground fault protected?

IMO yes or is there more to your question then I am realizing?

 

[infinity]

Here's what Mike Holt has to say about this in his 2008 code changes book:

This change reinstates the 1999 code language requiring GFCI protection on single-phase hard wired pump motors to ensure safety for swimming pool users.

 

[mdshunk]

For me and mine, I GFCI every pool pump anyhow. Just seems like the right thing to do, to me. Pool equipment is often very neglected during its life unless it just plain up and totally quits.

 

[peter d]

For me and mine, I GFCI every pool pump anyhow. Just seems like the right thing to do, to me. Pool equipment is often very neglected during its life unless it just plain up and totally quits.

That's pretty much standard practice around here despite what the NEC has said/says. I've never seen nor installed a pool related circuit without GFCI protection.

 

[volt102]

IMO yes or is there more to your question then I am realizing?

It states this requirement is to be applied to direct-connected pumps only when those outlets are supplied from short-circuit and ground-fault protected circuits to be GFCI protected.

Had some electricians arguing until I caught one side interchanging the terms 'ground-fault protected' with 'ground-fault circuit-interrupter'.

Definitions, Definitions, Definitions!

I also always gfci protected them in the past.

 

[infinity]

It states this requirement is to be applied to direct-connected pumps only when those outlets are supplied from short-circuit and ground-fault protected circuits to be GFCI protected.

Had some electricians arguing until I caught one side interchanging the terms 'ground-fault protected' with 'ground-fault circuit-interrupter'.

Definitions, Definitions, Definitions!

I also always gfci protected them in the past.

Jim,

Do the words "short-circuit and ground-fault protection" do anything to change the requirement? I'm not sure what those other electricians are arguing.