Integrating Swimming Pool Light with ISY

[eas1205]

I have a general safety question on setting up my swimming pool light with my ISY. The box with light switch that controls my swimming pool light is too shallow to accommodate a switch linc replacement unfortunately. My next thought was to keep the original switch in the on position and just put an Insteon Micro on/off switch inside the jbox behind my diving board and use that to turn the pool light on and off. Is this a safe setup or any electrical safety issues with doing it this way? 

[Teken]

I have a general safety question on setting up my swimming pool light with my ISY. The box with light switch that controls my swimming pool light is too shallow to accommodate a switch linc replacement unfortunately. My next thought was to keep the original switch in the on position and just put an Insteon Micro on/off switch inside the jbox behind my diving board and use that to turn the pool light on and off. Is this a safe setup or any electrical safety issues with doing it this way? 

 

Where is the GFCI that protects this electrical circuit, at the main breaker?

[eas1205]

Looks like its at the breaker on my pool pad.

[Teken]

Depending upon where you live and what NEC code is enforced in your local. The application of a secondary remote switch may be allowed / disallowed. I would simply call the city inspector and inquire first.

 

 

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[stusviews]

If the box into which you intend the install the Micro Module is approved for it's current use, and there's probably no reason it isn't, then yes, you can install a Micro Module. The code doesn't really specify what can be enclosed, only that the enclosure be approved.

[etsvilik]

I use micro on-off in this fashion for pool light. Instead of switch box I placed it inside the pool electric panel, next to the GFCI breaker as it is better weather protected.

[eas1205]

Thanks for the feedback. Sounds like it isn't a safety issue so much as I just need to make sure it's ok from an electr

ical code perspective.

[larryllix]

It's  Electrical Safety Code.

[stusviews]

More succinctly, the only concern of the National Electric Code is safety. In the US it's published by the National Fire Protection Association, a private, not government, organization. In Canada, it's a government published document (CEC).