So, I brushed up on some electrical skills this past weekend. For the last two years I have been running my pool filter from a long (and expensive) 10 gauge extension cord. I always had to pick it up when mowing the yard, and it never stayed in the outlet because of its weight.
I had bought the materials to do this over a year ago, and finally decided to get to it this past weekend.
I started by digging a ditch about 45 feet long, pulling out way too many rocks, it took the most time in this project. To be extra safe, I used both UL Listed under ground feeder cable (10 gauge) and 3/4" conduit. I bought an all weather electric box with a GFCI outlet.
I was debating about placing the outlet box up on the deck itself, but felt it would be in too much of a "splash zone", so I set a post out about 3 feet, and mounted up the box there.
I put it all together. You may notice the outlet i used here is NOT the GFCI outlet, that is because I have one already on the upstream side of the circut, so it would be redundant, and I've had issues wiring these fault outlets together on the same circut.
I was channeling my father throughout the work (he was an electrician by trade and taught me a lot). The thing I'm proudest of is that I managed to get the sod back into the ground with very little grass dying off.
