Not to sound snarky but if its an existing installation built to the code in effect at the time does the NEC (or any adopted code) require a performance test when service work happens like replacing a feeder, breaker or pump?
No such requirement...just a job I would never do no matter how much they paid me.
I think some municipalities have it in the building code for commercial or public pools that an annual inspection and testing be done Including bonding tests. Not sure if it is state wide. Also seen insurance require it. An inspection agency near me told me they have gotten requests to do this inspection but they won't do it for liability reasons as well as the cost of the equipment to do the grounding and EP bond testing for all their inspectors.
NJ requires bond certification every 5 years on public pools. I would imagine Florida has a similar requirement.
Amen. One concept that gets lost sometimes is that a customer calls an electrician to help them with their problem - the customer's problem. It doesn't become the electrician's problem until he touches it. They may try to twist your arm to get you to help, but I don't recall reading any books about the fortunes made from crappy fixes on 60-year-old motels. You don't owe them anything, and frankly, I wouldn't charge them anything for the initial consultation just to keep them off the books.
Interesting I found the NJ requirement but not anything for Florida other than public pools are regulated by the health department.
NJAC 5:23-2.18(C)
Thanks but it still does not specify a particular test
Thanks.
If I knew before posting I would not have asked. Hard to be an expert on everything.
I tested resistance from the pool water to a couple old cut off metal pool fence posts that are embedded in the concrete pool deck and got 1 mega ohm. That didn't give me much hope.
Best to just avoid things outside one's areas of expertise. I don't think a few paragraphs of advice from internet friends is going to give you all that much.
And when they get several that don't want to work on it for the same reasons, maybe they will realize how serious this might be.
There will be several that refuse to work on it unless it meets full compliance and perhaps the owners will realize. But they are looking for that magic bullet and some contractor will show up and agree to do the work. Just what they wanted all along. God be with them.
Or maybe they call someone who does know and it gets fixed
Is testing from pool water a standard way of testing a bonding grid? I would guess not.
The way I have seen it done on Mikes video is to take the known NEV (neutral to earth voltage) and test between all bonded parts of pool to remote earth I believe and all should be the exactly the same.
So you have 5 contractors that say they will only do it if some rather extensive concrete work is done and all have same reasons why that is the only way to do it but that one guy comes along and says he can do it without all that concrete work you either fall for any of his explanations, are fixed more so on price and hopefully compliance if that is at stake, or just plain gullible. Hopefully the five that did tell you the proper way also did a good enough job of explaining why it needs to be done that way.
