Motor to pool bonding wire ?

[438stroker]

I bonded a #6gauge solid wire from my motor to one of the pool wall bolts' where the wall bolts together...Can this wire be buried or installed inside of some flexible pvc or should i use solid wire with a coating...I just have it running from the pool back across the ground to the motor...We fixing to put some stones around the pool and use small rocks or some type of mulch ..thanks

 

[cramar]

Can be buried, should be at least 6" deep, that's what I read on the subject when I installed mine.
Is it me or would putting in conduit defeat the purpose? I could be wrong on that though.

 

[Pickinator]

Hi:

My first Post.

We have an inground indoor and the thick guage copper wire connects the SSC handrails, diveboard supports, underwater SAM light, heater, and metal conduit around the switches and ozone generator to the pump. It is uncoated bare wire and it is entombed under the concrete patio, under the styrofoam insulation supporting the PEX in-floor tubing. It rests on the sand under everything. The pool and all hardware was installed professionally. Sorry, but I don't know the guage thickness.

-For what it's worth.

Jim (Pickinator)
Eagle River Wisconsin

 

[438stroker]

Mine is just laying on the ground right now...We getting some stones to put around pool and then putting some kind of rocks or something on the ground between the wall and stones....

 

[Lershac]

It's fine to bury as is. You should bury it a few inches to keep it from getting mangled up if someone decides to put flowers in or something.

 

[438stroker]

Thanks Alot!

 

[duraleigh]

The wire should be bare and connected to ANYTHING metal in your pool like handrails, ladders, etc. as well as the pool walls.

It should not be insulated in any way as the idea is for it to stay in contact with ground.

 

[438stroker]

Onlything metal is the pool wall, top and bottom rails, and top braces...I ran a #6 bare copper from motor to 1 of the bolts where the wall bolts together...

 

[bob22]

"It should not be insulated in any way as the idea is for it to stay in contact with ground."
It is not grounding the metal as an electrical system is grounded, it is creating a means for all metal parts to be of equal potential relative to one another , not to the ground/earth (bonding not grounding). Some areas require a water bond as well (a metal fitting with a bonding lug, that is connected into the filter system).

 

[Pool Clown]

"It should not be insulated in any way as the idea is for it to stay in contact with ground."
It is not grounding the metal as an electrical system is grounded, it is creating a means for all metal parts to be of equal potential relative to one another , not to the ground/earth (bonding not grounding). Some areas require a water bond as well (a metal fitting with a bonding lug, that is connected into the filter system).

+1

Like in a car system, not so much a ground, but a common.