Recent content by tonytoothdoc

Thanks so much for walking me through all of this. I couldn’t find the bonding lug on the transformer housing looking at the underside from the front or sides. The back of the box is wedged against a rock wall. Finally I was able to get a photo from the underside of the rear of the transformer...

My understanding was that you use split bolts to connect the cut wire to the new wire, but I never received a response as to if you cover it all with some more potting compound, so I reposted it in a different form. I apologize but I missed iyour second part that on Hayward’s box the ground...

It appears that my Hayward poolside box housing the transformer has no external lug for attaching the #8 green wire running through pvc from the wet niche. It has multiple green grounding screws and one lug-like elongated piece under a screw which would fit a #8 wire nicely, all screws attached...

While replacing a 2 -wire pool light with a 2 -wire w/ground pool light, I noticed that the green #8 wire which was attached to the inside lug of the non-metallic wet niche and covered with potting compound had been cut to about a 6” length by the prior owner (I’m assuming when he had installed...

Thank you, do these then need to be covered with potting compound to prevent corrosion within the wet niche?

I have 3 parts to my question concerning bonding: 1. Previous owner cut the existing #8 green bonding jumper that is attached to a lug inside the wet light niche and covered with potting compound. There is 8” dangling into the wet niche. Can I use butt connectors with shrink insulation (which...

Should I figure out some way to attach the bond wire to a screw or something to the niche rather than strip it and tuck it into a metal groove? Where should the lug be that it would attach to?

Additionally, I’d like to know if this high borate poses a health risk and is there anything I need to do?

Why would my borates be rising? I started around 30 and used the app to figure how much to add to get to 40. After a few weeks it appeared to drop to about 35, so I recomputed and added more Mule team borax. It went to 45-50. 3 weeks later I checked it and is was nearing 100. Now, 2 more weeks...

Thanks so much. I saw elsewhere that the loose green wire inside the niche should have been connected as the bond, but it isn’t and there didn’t appear to be a lug or anything to attach it to. The wire was cut flat ( no insulation stripped off it). I stripped some insulation and wedged it into...