Pool wiring
Pool electrical is the most heavily regulated residential wiring there is, and for a reason that isn't obvious: the danger usually isn't a shock from touching something broken. It's a small voltage difference between two things a wet person can touch at once. Ken wires new pool equipment, replaces failed pool circuits, and corrects bonding on older pools that were never done right.
Equipotential bonding — the part nobody sees
Around a pool, everything conductive gets tied together with heavy solid copper: the steel in the shell, the perimeter deck, the ladder and handrail anchors, the pump and heater, metal in the screen enclosure, and the water itself. The point isn't to send current to ground — it's to make sure every surface a swimmer can touch sits at the same potential, so there's nothing to shock them. On older pools this is the single most commonly missing or corroded-through item, and it's the one worth checking if anyone has ever felt a tingle in or around the water.
Pump, heater and equipment circuits
Variable-speed pumps, heat pumps and salt systems each need the right circuit, the right disconnect within sight of the equipment, and GFCI protection where required. Pool equipment lives outdoors in Florida weather and, near the coast, in salt air — so weatherproof enclosures and corrosion-resistant terminations aren't optional details, they're what makes the install last.
Pool and deck lighting
Underwater lighting is low voltage from a transformer, with the niche and its conduit handled to the letter. Around the deck, receptacle placement and clearances from the water's edge are prescribed by code, and every one of them is GFCI protected. Converting an old incandescent pool light to LED is a popular upgrade and a good moment to verify the niche and bonding while everything is open.
Why pool wiring is licensed work, always
Article 680 of the National Electrical Code exists specifically because water plus electricity kills people who never touched anything obviously dangerous. A licensed electrician is the person who knows those rules cold.
- Bonding grid installed or verified — the failure that hurts people is almost always here
- GFCI protection on every circuit that requires it, tested before it's signed off
- Disconnects located within sight of the equipment as required
- Permitted and inspected, which matters for both your insurer and the next owner
- If anyone has ever felt a tingle in your pool, stop using it and call — that's the warning sign
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