Skimmer Voltage/ground Leak, new pump? Vertex IN-80/100

[craigwmiller]

Okay well I fixed the badly wired outlets, and the odd voltage potentials are cleared up - glad nothing bad happened from those.

My skimmer is still still causing an issue though, so after all of the troubleshooting not being able to find a specific problem somewhere else it must be the skimmer.

Last test, before I re-post a request for a pump to try/buy

I unplugged everything inside the water and then tested conductivity between the water and the plug pins, here's what I found:

Pump, 2x Heaters, ZEOvit pump:
Ground or Neutral or Hot (from cord) -vs- sump water... Infinite Ohms (perfect)

Skimmer:
Ground -vs- sump water... 20K Ohms
Neutral -vs- sump water... 15M Ohms
Hot -vs- sump water... 15M Ohms


15M Ohms is high, sure, but there is conductivity there. 20K is very low, considering there should be no conductivity where I was measuring.


I should have done some of this specific conduction testing earlier, but first time troubleshooting something this odd there are so many things to try.


At least I resolved the Hot/Neutral mixup on those two outlets!!!!!


Now, to replace the skimmer pump.


Thanks!
Craig

[Baldy]

How old is your house/electrical? I don't see how you could have any voltage across the neutral and ground at all unless either your picking up inductive voltage from another wire or the neutral isn't properly.bonded in your panel. If your comfortable opening it up, check the jumper/bus bar/screw that bonds the neutral bar in your panel to ground as well. Just another idea.