Hey All, I can feel electrical current coming from the pool light screw when the pump is on. When the pump is off, the current stops. I don't feel it from the metal surrounding the light, just the screw itself. Burns pretty good if you keep you finger on it for a few seconds. Very confusing, any experience or thoughts on what could be causing this? Thanks
Shock from pool light screw
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jedigrover
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- Sep 13, 2010
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- Pool Size
- 21000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Hayward Aqua Rite (T-15)
Call an electrician or a pool builder. Seriously. Don't screw around with it. Don't let anyone into the pool until it is addressed.
Someone needs to check the bonding of ALL the equipment and especially the pump, light, and niche. It sounds like you've got current coming from the pump motor onto the bonding wire and then to the anchor screw of the light. But it's odd that the rest of the metal is not energized (or maybe it is, just that the brass screw gives a better path to YOU).
Someone needs to check the bonding of ALL the equipment and especially the pump, light, and niche. It sounds like you've got current coming from the pump motor onto the bonding wire and then to the anchor screw of the light. But it's odd that the rest of the metal is not energized (or maybe it is, just that the brass screw gives a better path to YOU).
Thanks for the replies. Yeah, I flipped the breakers to cut off all power to the pool equipment, but it just seems weird that it just started happening and it's the pump.
Well how often do you touch the pool light screw ? I don't think I ever touched mine in 8 years.
Touch it! Touch it! Dare you!
Check at the main panel too. It's possible the pump/pad may be on a GFCI there and the light on its own circuit with its own GFCI outside.