I have an Ozone pool. I know you have never heard of one. Me either until I bought this house. It is a light bulb that the water passes by and it puts ozone in the pool water to kill bacteria instead of chlorine. Or something like that. It has not worked sence I moved in. The pool builder finally replaced the ballast. After he replaced the ballast every time it rains it throws the GFI. He blames it on the GFI but funny I didn't have this problem before. I went out today because it rained yesterday and it wont trip back this time. I can unplug it and it works then I plug it back in and it pops. I took a heavy extension cord and ran it to other GFI's and it popped them to. I finally just pluged it in where there was no GFI and it works. I know that this is not a good idea but it is running now and no one is in the pool. My question is, is it the GFI or is it the ballast. If it is the GFI why is it doing it to all the GFI's that I used? Is it because it's on a cord?

Help!Usta

 

No... Unplug it right now and check all of the wiring connections. The GFCI is doing its job by detecting a leaking current to ground. And what ever you do do not let anyone in the pool with that thing pluged in

 

Done! There is an in line fuse that goes into this thing. I would think that it would have popped that fuse when I plugged it into a hot outlet. I am not pleased with my pool guy.

 

A ground fault will not trip a regular breaker or blow a fuse unless the current in the fault exceeds the current rating of the fuse or breaker. The fault could be anywhere in the circuit. I worked on a hot tub that would not allow the gfi to set. It turned out to be a splice in the wire between the tub and the panel. The installer used a wire nut to splice the wire in an lb fitting. The lb filled up with rain water and created the ground fault. Time to start looking for ground faults.

 

pool guys generally dont know much about electricity other than it makes their pumps move water
My suggestion would be to call a electrician in to come and find the problem and fix it. It may cost a bit but you cant put a price on a life

 

& if your pool gu7y gives you any trouble about you not paying the bill ask him again to see his electicians license.......

 

right on brother

 

Heck, I clean pools for a living and I've never even hold of an ozone filter...


And it isn't that we don't know anything about electricity, it's rather that we don't want to be liable for somebody turning themselves into a dumb-kabob. I wouldn't touch some kind of ozonating-water purifier gizmo... That just sounds scary.

It is surprising how many pool guys get electrocuted on the job, though. Maybe we don't know anything about electricity...

 

A GFCI outlet is design and required in many places anywher teh outlet may be exposed to a water source . the GFCI constantly monitors electricity flowing in a circuit, to sense any loss of current. If teh current flowing through the circuit differs by a small amount from that returning, the GFCI instantly switches off power to that circuit. The GFCI interrupts power faster than a blink of an eye to prevent a lethal dose of electricity, much faster and sooner than a circuit breaker would. You may receive a painful shock, but you should not be electrocuted or receive a serious shock injury.
They can and do go "bad" but if several of them are tripping it means you have direct short to ground, which is dangerous.
Since you are dealing with an area with a large body of standing water, your chances of an accidental electrocution increase.
Have a liscened electrician check this IMMEDIATLY...... and Do not energize the circuit untill that is done.