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  1. Nice pics! Looks like you got a good deal there! Enjoy.
  2. Thank you! This does help. Rich Hello, Just bought a new Baja whitewater model 1067. It calls for 240v 50 amp. I hooked it this way but the gfi trips every other day. Sometimes when we have 8 people in it. sometimes when I have only 2. It trips with either one pump on or two pumps plus the heater. the other day I had 8 kids in it and it seemed like water was overflowing and then it started tripping. After 4 hours it worked fine. My concern is that you mention about wire runs. I used 6 gage with 10 gage ground but my run from the main panel to subpanel is 90 feet. From the subpanel to the hot tub panel is another 15 feet. Same gage wire. Is my wire run too long? Also I placed the subpanel about 3 feet from the hot tub ( attched to the deck) Is this too close? I really appreciate it. Thanks Reece st charles, Il My understanding is the subpanel (I am assuming you are talking about the GFCI spa disconnect) must be at least 5 feet away from the tub. Before I even pulled a permit, I talked with the local electrical inspector to make sure I was doing stuff right (I did forget to ask him about ground wire size, thus my question here) and that was one of the requirments he told me about.
  3. The electrical inspector was out yesterday. The job passed with flying colors. I knew #10 AWG ground was NEC compliant, but was worried more about manufacturer's requirments. I called my dealer and he told me that the ground wire should be per NEC. I also looked closely at the ground lugs in the control panel...not nearly big enough to accomdate #6 ground. The tub is working great. Reece, I am having no tripping issues at all. I would suspect something other than the ground wire size for the tripping issues (unless your manufacturer required bigger than installed)...an bad GFCI, or bad connection on one or more conductors. I would check and make sure all lugs are tightened down well, and check any other wire connections (wire nuts, splices, etc) if present. (This is based soley on my experience with 120V GFCI circuits that have given me trouble in the past. I am NOT an electrician, just a DIY fellow).
  4. OK. The spa arrived, I hooked it up. All running fine. The spa is a 3 wire 240, thus no load neutral is used. I bought wire and ran it before the tub arrived so just capped off the load neutral. The spa is a Sundance Cameo. Next question...the manual says to use minimum #6 conductors. This I did for both hot legs, but used a #10 bonding wire per NEC. Did I mess up on the ground (bonding) wire? Was I suppose to use a #6?? Thanks in advance for you help.
  5. I went with the Sundance Cameo. It arrived today. I already had the pad done (did it myself), and most of the electrical. Finished up the electrical stuff and filled the tub. Am working on start up chemicals and waiting (and waiting, and waiting) for the temp to come up. I will post pictures soon, I swear! I am trying Baqua spa for chemicals. Hopefully I have not already screwed up. I put in the sanitizer before balancing the water...but am thinking I will be OK. Any thoughts here? Stay tuned for pictures
  6. I am sorry if this has been flogged before. I did a search, but did not find the specific answer I was looking for. I have a new spa coming and the dealer reccomended a 60 Amp service for the spa (bascially so I could have both pumps and the heater on at the same time). I have done some research and bought what I think I need, but have a question about the gauge wire for the ground (green) wire from the main panel to the spa disconnect (and from spa disconnect to the spa). Details Hammer-culter main panel. BR260 circuit breaker 1 inch conduit (mix of flexible and hard, plastic) 60 AMP GFCI spa disconnect box #6 AWG THHN conductors for L1 (black), L2 (red), and Neutral (white) #10 AWG for ground (green) I was told the #10 was correct for the ground wire, but wanted to make sure before I pulled everything. I would simply hate to be told I had the wrong ground wire size at inspection time. For the record, I am just a DIY type and have done electrical wiring, but have never done individual conductors in conduit before, thus have not had to worry about ground wire size as just used whatever was in the romex! Thank you in advance for your answers!
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