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Subject - need a nuetral
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zdive65
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i installed an exterior jaccuzzi, i used the existing 3 wire 220, (2 hot)(1 grnd), no nuetral. the jacuzzi requries a nuetral. there is no way to run a wire, can i loop off of an existing 110 line?
thanks
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jagerbombme
| There is a 220 breaker that comes with 3 terminals, 2 for ungrounded conductors and 1 for the grounded conductor. it is some type of gfi or arc fault breaker. it then has it's own neutral on it already to land on the neutral bus.
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nfsus
| that is a gfci breaker and you are not allowed to use a bare wire wire for a neutral. it has to be covered and the jacket around the romex dont count. also the code requires the neutral to run with the circuit. double check me though.
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jagerbombme
| yea, you would have to pull new wire. sorry for the lack of clarity, 2 hots, a neutral and a ground, although depending on where your at you can ground the motor to the water pipes underneath the jacuzzi, although i don't recommend that. i would pull it all the way back to panel.
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zdive65
| thanks!
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ohara7
| dont forget the ground has to be insulated once it goes outside the foundation of the house. I wire about 100 Tubs a year. I install the GFCI breaker in the house panel and use a switch style disconnect outside. you can use romex or service cable from the panel to disconnect if its mounted on outside of house. if you have to mount in yard or on deck then it has to be insulated conductors out to tub. no UF cable. if there is a metle light within 5 foot horz then it has to be gfci protected also any metal with in 5 foo has to be bonded EX sunroom. threshold to door.metal door its ugly but has to be done. and most manufactures require to go up on wire size ex. 50 amp tub #6 wire
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