Pool house feeders and location

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I am going to be wiring a pool at a residence and have a question about the location of the pool panel. The room that the owner is putting all of the equipment in will also have a sink and a toilet. Would this room now be considered a bathroom? I know I can't install a service in a bathroom but what about a sub panel?
I could maybe install the panel outside but do the pump motors require a disconnect within site?
 
crtemp said:
I am going to be wiring a pool at a residence and have a question about the location of the pool panel. The room that the owner is putting all of the equipment in will also have a sink and a toilet. Would this room now be considered a bathroom? I know I can't install a service in a bathroom but what about a sub panel?
I could maybe install the panel outside but do the pump motors require a disconnect within site?
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Sounds like a bathroom

Bathroom. An area including a basin with one or more of the following: a toilet, a tub, or a shower.
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240.24(E) Not Located in Bathrooms. In dwelling units and guest rooms or guest suites of hotels and motels, overcurrent devices, other than supplementary overcurrent protection, shall not be located in bathrooms.
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The pumps will still need a disconnecting means at the pumps.
 
That or some motor rated snap (wall) switches... pullouts may actually be less expensive depending on the motor ratings.

If you haven't done so, be sure to check 680.25. Pool feeders can be tricky.
 
augie47 said:
That or some motor rated snap (wall) switches... pullouts may actually be less expensive depending on the motor ratings.

If you haven't done so, be sure to check 680.25. Pool feeders can be tricky.
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I have wired about 10 pools or so but its been a few years. Other than having to be in conduit the entire way I don't remember anything else being too complicated. I'll read up on it again though.
 
augie47 said:
That or some motor rated snap (wall) switches... pullouts may actually be less expensive depending on the motor ratings.

If you haven't done so, be sure to check 680.25. Pool feeders can be tricky.
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There isn't a feeder section in article 680 in the 2008 code. Do the feeders need to be run in conduit or was that a 2011 code change. I will be installing using the 2008 code
 
crtemp said:
There isn't a feeder section in article 680 in the 2008 code. Do the feeders need to be run in conduit or was that a 2011 code change. I will be installing using the 2008 code
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Nevermind I found it. Too small on my iphone to see (lol)
 
Okay so after doing some more reading I found this in the Washington state electrical rules.

025 Feeders.
(10) NEC 680.25(A) is amended to read: A feeder between the service equipment and the remote panelboard is permitted to run in flexible metal conduit, an approved cable assembly that includes an equipment grounding conductor within its outer sheath (the equipment grounding conductor must comply with NEC 250.24 (A)(5)), rigid metal conduit, intermediate metal conduit, liquidtight flexible nonmetallic conduit, rigid polyvinyl chloride conduit, reinforced thermosetting resin conduit, electrical metallic tubing (when installed on or within a building or crawl space), and electrical nonmetallic tubing (when installed within a building or crawl space). Aluminum conduit is not permitted.

Would 6-3 NM-B qualify as an approved cable assembly? I can't seem to find a definition of what approved cable assembly means.
 
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