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Electricity and water don't mix PDF Print E-mail
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Tuesday, 13 March 2007
About four years ago, I got a call from my service dept that a customer of mine had a problem with the Thermospas hot tub that I had sold them. It seemed that their GFCI (Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter) kept tripping and they were getting a voltage reading in the water even after the GFCI tripped. Their electrician had gone out and he could not solve the problem but he insisted that it had nothing to do with his work of wiring the spa up.
 
Our service dept asked me if I had time to go out with the service rep and see if the two of us could figure out what the problem was because it was a potentially dangerous situation and it should not be possible to get a voltage reading in the hot tub's water after the GFCI trips. Scott, one of our top service reps, and I drove out to take a look at this Park Avenue spa. When we got to the home, we sure enough got a low voltage reading in the water of the Park Ave. His electrician had come out also to see if he could help and for a second the four of us, including the home owner, were scratching our heads.
 
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