Most people are aware that water and electricity don’t mix, but a surprising number of electricity-related accidents happen in swimming pools. To our ...

When a service technician is called out to a pool and sees water lights that won’t turn on — or worse, trip the GFCI — the question often becomes: wha...

If you’ve ever installed a lowvoltage pool light, connected an automation system, or worked on a spa control pack, chances are you’ve dealt with a tra...

When a pool tech walks up to an equipment pad and sees a pump that keeps tripping a breaker or a control system that’s gone dead, there’s a good chanc...

If you work around pool equipment long enough, you’ll run into a confusing tangle of wires inside a timer box or automation panel. Maybe you’re replac...

Can your electrician or service technician install a different brand of product if you have another brand of automation? The answer is a qualified yes...

Water is measured in gallons, eggs in dozens, meat in pounds. Electricity cannot be poured into a container or weighed on a scale, but is rather a thi...

Circuit protection devices include circuit breakers, fuses, and ground fault circuit interrupters. They are mostly used to protect people, but also th...

Electricity always travels the shortest path to the earth, so the trick with electrical safety is making sure you don’t become part of that path. One ...

I was speaking with someone at a social gathering who said his wife bought some Halloween lights from that cheap site online, and wants to string them...