Swimming Pool Electrical Requirements

The 2008 nec added a requirement for pool motors to have gfci protection whenever they re rated 120v or 240v 15a or 20a.

Swimming pool electrical requirements.

A swimming pool or spa installation must follow a couple of rules when it comes to overhead electrical lines. Electrical wiring requirements for swimming pools permanently installed swimming pools are those that are constructed in the ground or partially in the ground and all others capable of holding water with a depth greater than 42 inches 1067 mm 1 pool pump receptacle outlet and wiring method a. Cord length for a pump motor is 3 except for storable pools. Your swimming pool equipment may have other needs for electricity.

Electrical outlet receptacles near swimming pools receptacles for motors and pumps must be protected by a gfci and are required to be located within 6 to 10 feet of the pool walls. Add ons like ozonators ionizers and salt chlorine generators require electricity. Procedures to install in ground swimming pools. All other outlet receptacles for other uses must not be closer than 6 feet if gfci protected or within 20 feet if they are not protected.

Click on the picture to open a larger easier to read picture in a new window. Utility power lines that run over a pool or spa must be at least 22 5 feet above the water level or base of a diving platform. Nec article 680 22. Communications cable must be at least 10 feet above the water level or diving platform.

These add ons usually don t use much electricity so you won t have to upgrade the breaker and wire size needed for the pump. The 2011 revision changed 680 21 c to include 208v by replacing the or with through the requirements have also been relocated to 680 21 from 680 22 subsections in 680 22 renumbered accordingly. 2017 national electrical code sps 316 swimming pool wiring nec article 680 680 5 gfci s may be either circuit breakers or receptacle type.