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james wuebker

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This house has an 4 person inside of the house hot tub. It's in a room next to the family room. It has a 50 GFCI breaker fed to it from the panel. The owner doesn't want a disconnect installed in the room of the hot tub. It would make his room look bad if he had a big disconnect on the wall in that room. Do I need a disconnect for the hot tub near it if it's in a room in his house? If so what would be a type of disconnect he could put in the room so he would like it.
I told him that I could put an E-stop button circuit on the wall but he thought that would look bad also.
Thanks!
Jim
 
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Tell him to try a plant :D not less than 5 ft.and no more than 50 I`d say .
 
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Emg disconnect is not required in a dwelling, but a maintenance disconnect is. You could use a flush mount 2 space panel with a picture mounted over it? but it has to be within site and readily accessible so there are not two many options.
 
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Couldn't you use a remotely operated disconnect with something aesthetic as the remote control?
 
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Originally posted by james wuebker:
The owner doesn't want a disconnect installed in the room of the hot tub. It would make his room look bad if he had a big disconnect on the wall in that room.
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The disconnect is pretty small compared to the huge square thing sitting on the floor.

What CODE cycle is being enforced?
This may help you.
 
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How about a contactor under the house with a labeled switch on the wall in the hot tub room? This would go along with the remotely operated disconnect previously mentioned.

I am not clear on 680.41, but I think the breakers that are part of the hot tub package(inside hotub) are all that are required in single family dwellings. ??
 
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How about a contactor under the house with a labeled switch on the wall in the hot tub room? This would go along with the remotely operated disconnect previously mentioned.
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While you can use remotely operated contactors as an emergency shut down, you cannot not use them for a maintenance disconnect. The disconnect, itself, must open the ungrounded conductors that feed the equipment.
Don
 
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Don, I'm not disagreeing, because I'm not sure I have a leg to stand on here, but 680.12 doesn't seem to me to say that the disconnecting means has to be a single integral unit. And if there can be two seperate components to a disconnecting means, then couldn't the component that causes the disconnection be located to satisfy accessability and the rest be somewhere else?

And on a more practicle note. Isn't there a service bay in that thing?
 
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Sorry, I guess the service bay thing wont satisfy within sight. Boy is that stupid in this case.
 
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