Hello All! I have an inground pool built in 1973. It does not have an attached hot tub. There used to be a junction box connecting power from the pool light to the breaker box. The connection was severed when we bought the house 6 years ago. (Yes, power was off at the breaker.) We decided to try and get the light working. The bulb was bad and the housing had seen better days. We replaced the light fixture and ran the power cord back to the breaker box (approximately 70 feet). Power is 120V. The ground wire from the pool niche/recess was connected to a ground rod (6 feet deep). A new GFI breaker (20A) was installed. There is a light switch inside the house that turns on the light. Testing the GFI breaker with the light switch off trips the breaker. With the breaker on, turning on the pool light at the light switch immediately trips the breaker. Any ideas as to why? We also changed to bulb in the new housing to an LED bulb. No leaks into the new housing from the bulb change.
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