Hi, I'm starting a job that is in So Cal for a pool light replacement. I had the inspector out to pre-walk the project so I wouldn't run into any surprises, NOT... I explained to him how I planned on cutting the concrete on both sides of the deck box, (round recessed j box about 18" from the edge of the pool directly behind the pool light) break out the cement and remove the deck box. I would then attach red brass pipe to the end and run it out to a minumum of 5' from the edge of the pool and install a GFCI. Then from the GFCI run 1/2" thinwall conduit back to the power which is located by the pump. I'm tapping the power from a outlet located under the timer for the pump. This is a GFCI protected breaker coming up to the outlet and then to the pump equipment. I know I need to bond the shell to the pool grid and thinking it should already be like this, he tells me to run a #6 bare copper wire from the pool light (not the shell) back to the pump also?? I must be missing something because I've replaced quite a few pool lights and there's no place to connect a ground wire to the pool light and how would you change the lamp with a #6 wire attached to it? (be kinda hard to pull it up on the deck for replacement)Then he says I can't run 1/2" thinwall conduit on the wall from the GFCI back to the power becuase it would be unsightly and I need to bury sched 80 conduit 18" down all the way back to the GFCI protected outlet, replace the GFCI protected outlet with a GFCI and add another j-box and a switch... Any suggestions???Thanks, JB
Sorry, didn't mean to write a book but hopefully this makes sense...
Sorry, didn't mean to write a book but hopefully this makes sense...
