I have a sylvan in ground pool from 1976. I went to turn my pool on at the electrical panel on Thursday the GFCI breaker won’t turn on. It just immediately trips.
I followed the wires out to a Switch box on the back of my house and I see all the wires coming from my panel. I have a Blue, Red, Green and 2 Whites.
I disconnected the Blue and corresponding White wires that connect to the GFCI breaker. With those wires disconnected, the breaker turn on and stays on, so I know the breaker is good.
There are 2 sets of wires leaving that switch box. They are just typical Black, White and ground wires. I opened up the outlet box that my pump connects to, which is a L6-30 twist lock outlet. Inside the outlet I have a Blue, Red, Green, and 2 whites.
The L6-30 looked kind of rusty so I removed it so I could replace it.
While it was removed, and all the wires separated, I tried the breaker and it still flips right off, so there must be a wiring issue underground.
There are no other electrical boxes, other than the one used to connect to my light, which I removed a few years back.
Since the color of the wires near my house, is different than the wires at the pump outlet, there must be a junction box underground.
Does anyone have any knowledge of where the underground box may be? I know no one can give me the exact coordinates, but maybe there is some convention.
My pool is about 30 yards from my house and the pump pad is on the far side of the pool from my house. I’m about to start digging like I’m looking for Blackbeard’s hidden treasure. Any educated guesses would be appreciated. For instance, would it be between the house and the pool? On far side of the pool near the pump pad?
The wires leaving the box at the pump pad are in metal conduit. My options seem to be work back from the pump pad and dig a hole every 3 feet or so and try to follow it, but then i might miss it. I could trench all the way from the pump pad, but if its closer to the house that’s a lot of digging. I could rent a metal detector to find where the conduit goes and take a wild guess and start digging. I can't start digging from the house because there is a drip septic system between the pool and the house.
I followed the wires out to a Switch box on the back of my house and I see all the wires coming from my panel. I have a Blue, Red, Green and 2 Whites.
I disconnected the Blue and corresponding White wires that connect to the GFCI breaker. With those wires disconnected, the breaker turn on and stays on, so I know the breaker is good.
There are 2 sets of wires leaving that switch box. They are just typical Black, White and ground wires. I opened up the outlet box that my pump connects to, which is a L6-30 twist lock outlet. Inside the outlet I have a Blue, Red, Green, and 2 whites.
The L6-30 looked kind of rusty so I removed it so I could replace it.
While it was removed, and all the wires separated, I tried the breaker and it still flips right off, so there must be a wiring issue underground.
There are no other electrical boxes, other than the one used to connect to my light, which I removed a few years back.
Since the color of the wires near my house, is different than the wires at the pump outlet, there must be a junction box underground.
Does anyone have any knowledge of where the underground box may be? I know no one can give me the exact coordinates, but maybe there is some convention.
My pool is about 30 yards from my house and the pump pad is on the far side of the pool from my house. I’m about to start digging like I’m looking for Blackbeard’s hidden treasure. Any educated guesses would be appreciated. For instance, would it be between the house and the pool? On far side of the pool near the pump pad?
The wires leaving the box at the pump pad are in metal conduit. My options seem to be work back from the pump pad and dig a hole every 3 feet or so and try to follow it, but then i might miss it. I could trench all the way from the pump pad, but if its closer to the house that’s a lot of digging. I could rent a metal detector to find where the conduit goes and take a wild guess and start digging. I can't start digging from the house because there is a drip septic system between the pool and the house.
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