| A day in the life of a Hot Tub specialist somewhere on | | | | spa and is then behind a locked door requiring a key. |
| the Costa del Sol | | | | So if there was a requirement to switch off the spa in |
| The phone rang one Saturday morning in our | | | | a hurry or for what ever reason the breaker just not |
| Estepona Showroom "can you look at my Hot Tub | | | | where it should be. |
| Jacuzzi Style Spa please it doesn't work". | | | | We move on some simple checks and surprise the |
| We go through the usual pleasantries - how long has | | | | spa is not earthed? The house does not seem to be |
| he had the Hot Tub in Spain - about two years - what | | | | earthed!!! Well this is Spain. But this House has been |
| make is it - does it have good controls that I recognize | | | | rewired on the last two / three years BUT NO |
| like for example Balboa and then the potential client | | | | EARTH!!! |
| tells me that he wasn't very happy with the original | | | | We turn every thing off and open the breaker. The |
| sale in the first place. On no account will he go back to | | | | blue wires are the wrong size to carry the load they |
| the original supplier if he could find him which he cannot. | | | | are to small and the colour has changed from blue to |
| It's a Spa from a Major American maker a bit dated in | | | | black as they were getting close to ignition. The |
| my view from the design point of view but a perfectly | | | | ceramic part of the broker has started to go brown as |
| good product never the less and more than adequate | | | | it was close to ignition. It smelt like an incendiary device |
| for the its intended purpose. | | | | it had clearly been getting very hot and close to ignition. |
| On the telephone we can get a good idea of what | | | | The Breaker that had been supplied was of the wrong |
| might be the problem and it would appear that at this | | | | size as was the cables. |
| stage the Spa has no power and my sense is that it is | | | | The spa company had just dropped off the spa and |
| possibly a mains electrical fault of some kind. The Juice | | | | said here is your spa and we have a local electrician |
| is not getting through for what ever reason | | | | coming tomorrow to wire it up. He probably did a good |
| So with my pal Ulf (a Swede) we go for a drive in to | | | | job but was not briefed or trained on the project. A bit |
| the country to see the Hot Tub. | | | | like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand |
| When we get there the first thing I notice is that | | | | does. |
| against the maker's instruction and best practice there | | | | We got an independent electrician in to Earth the Spa |
| is no breaker switch accessible to turn off the | | | | and rewired the Spa as required with proper sized |
| electricity. | | | | cables. |
| There is a breaker but it has been fitted INSIDE the | | | | |