I have a customer that has a 30 year old pool .They switched to a salt water system .Since changing over they feel a tingle/shock when stepping out of the pool. How do I meter this to isolate it source or what do I do to resolve it?
salt water, i am speculating here, is a bit better as an electrolite than
unsalted water, altho the salt content is pretty minimal in a salt/chlorine
system.
so instead of thinking the salt made the difference, i'm gonna think something
that got wired or rewired when the system was upgraded is leaking.... and there
most likely will be a gradient involved. a few years ago near where i live, two kids
were in a pool, and found that there was a tingling when they swam near the
pool light, so they, being 10 years old, decided to see how close they could swim
to it. it killed one of them.
my first thought is to megger between the pool equipment/ground, and the wet niche
fixture bezel. i've done this in the past by taking a fluke megger, and taping one lead
to a piece of PVC conduit, holding it on the bezel, and meggering to a wire attached to
the equipment ground. with a fluke, i'm looking to put it on 1000 VDC, and see only one
volt of potential maintained across the meter.
disconnect the timers, and pool controls before doing this. you want to see if there is
any difference of potential possible between ground and pool water. with that set aside,
start testing one thing at a time, until you find the leak....