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    UK Legislation surrounding air pumps delivering air into a swimming pool?

    Hi, I'm trying to understand legislation in the UK for using an air pump in conjunction with a swimming pool with regards creating and supplying a product utilising compressed air in a swimming pool as a commercial product. My understanding of the regs is that as long as the air pump /...
  2. T

    swimming pool zones.

    contractors have installed a pool cover and have situated the isolator and the junction box at just above 2.5m but the conduit running between them with the 230v cable in it goes down to 2.47m at its lowest point. Is that allowed or is it pedantic? please see poorly drawn diagram for more...
  3. W

    School swimming pool changing areas, what heaters?

    Any ideas for an appropriate wall heater for school swimming pool changing rooms? (well detached from pool area but will still have wet bodies in obviously) Got to be reasonably well protected from abuse They have currently got twin tubular heaters with steel cages over the top, but the heat...
  4. Mike57

    Grounding and bonding swimming pool pump

    Need some help please. Got a brain teaser for my first post. My pool pump motor cratered over 4th of July. It was working fine and started to sound like it had gravel in it. I turned it off at the timer to backwash and the breaker tripped. She was locked up. Since it was 8 years old I took it to...
  5. P

    Electrical for Inground Swimming Pool

    Hi All, We've done some electrical in the past. Wired our outdoor kitchen, added an electric heater to our porch, etc. We are pretty new to pool stuff. We currently have a next to house patio that they thought ahead on and ran 1" conduit under. We also have a shed that's wired for lights and a...
  6. D

    UK swimming pool wiring from dedicated 30Amp spur

    Hi all, Looking for some tips on supplying my pool equipment (2kw heater, 1hp pump, 1.6kw swim jet, 12w led light) with power. My house has a 30amp electrical switched spur waiting for this job. I would like to run a 16mm 4-core SWA cable from it to end on other side of garden (30meters)...
  7. J

    Swimming Pool- bonding

    Afternoon An internal swimming pool (recessed into the concrete floor of a basement in a domestic house) The pool has a metal frame However all pipes feeding the pool are plastic Am i right in thinking I do not need to bond the metal frame as it is not a extraneous metal part ? nor do I...
  8. sythai

    Swimming Pool Regs 702

    Hi Guys Been to look at a job, as follows : Existing Swimming Pool House 20meters away from main house, DB in here on TT set up, Ze = 90ohms. Plan is to come off here to supply another outbuilding which is about 15metres away. Just wanting to make sure DB I'm coming off of is compliant, as...
  9. C

    Swimming in 120 volts of electricity

    Incredible video, I honor Mike's bravery. Goes to show you how important electrical bonding is in protecting human life: View: https://youtu.be/tqTvxFF7QF8?t=4301 Worth watching the whole video when you guys and gals have time- highly educational.
  10. richy3333

    Lights for a swimming pool - ideas?

    Existing customer has swimming pool that extends 4/5 feet above ground (sits on a concrete base). It's one of those where you swim against the waves. All well done and was very expensive. Because its outside he has built a timber building over the top of it (looks like a posh workshop) -...
  11. B

    DIY question..20a or 15a for swimming pool

    Hey there, My swimming pool has a 1.5 HP motor (120v,15a) that is plugged into a 15a duplex outlet. It's on a dedicated 20a GFCI (in the breaker panel) and it's fed using 12 gauge wire. I recently bought a new timer (sight unseen) that turned out to be a 120v,20a timer with twist lock...
  12. Leeroy

    Help with swimming pool

    Hi All Have a job where i need to reconnect the electrics associated with heating the swimming pool , sounds easy enough but all previous equipment has been ripped out and misplaced . Im left with a conventional gas boiler and a pump ant thats it ! What I'm planning is to control the boiler...
  13. P

    Indoor swimming pool lights

    Looking at a job where the customer has an indoor semi-raised swimming pool (large Jacuzzi half buried in the floor) & they want down lighters in the ceiling which will be about 2.1m from FFL. The question is, do theses have to be SELV or can i get away with mains class 2 IP65. Every time i...
  14. HappyHippyDad

    A few questions regarding domestic swimming pool..

    I have been asked to price for a supply to an outdoor swimming pool (domestic). The electric supply will be for a air source heat pump and the pool pump. (see pics) The pool is above the ground rather than buried in it (so figure 702.2 applies with regards zones). It has metal sides and metal...
  15. F

    swimming pool cleaner

    Hello all. Is it possible (allowed) to run a US 110v robotic swimming pool cleaner transformer from a UK 240 t0 110v site transformer, via a dedicated RCBO? TIA Jon
  16. A

    Swimming Pool Building in a Building

    Hi guys, Another question for those who've ever had this issue or experience with pool installations. I'm due to begin work on a timber framed building inside a steel framed building housing a swimming pool. The cabin would be mostly in Zone 2, potentially overlapping Zone 1. Would this cabin...
  17. C

    230v hair dryer swimming pool.

    Standard 230 v hairdryers wired into rcbo protected spurs poolside, id say zone 2 but didnt measure. Hair dryer cable is 2 core, the cable had been damaged leaving the neutral snapped and exposed at the hairdryer end, floating neutral... Someone apparently grabbed the cable and received a shock...
  18. S

    Swimming pool help please

    Hi, I’m not an electrician- just looking for some advice please - thanks. I’m looking at putting a small swimming pool in an industrial unit to open a swim school. The existing RCD board is currently in zone 1 and has lots of surface mounted cabling serving the existing lights etc, some also in...
  19. dlt27

    Swimming Pool Starter Help!

    Hi and thanks in advance. I have been called to a job to look at a faulty starter for a swimming pool. The starter apparently has never worked and swimming company has agreed to pay for it to be fixed ( there electrician has had 2 goes already). The starter is supposed to be wired so that if...
  20. D

    3 phase regs in proximity to swimming pool

    I have been trawling tge regs looking for clear rega concerning the proximity that a 3 phase mobile device can be installed in a swimmimg pool area. A client wants a cooking unit installed that has 3x 3kw cooking appliances. The 3 phase main switches are 32amp each as the incomming feeds are...

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