On Apr 23, 5:06*pm, "John Grabowski" wrote:
wrote in message.

That conduit is a little on the small side for those wires. *It should have
been 3/4" EMT. *No wonder they had trouble trying to pull the old conductors
out. *You might as well leave it as long is everything is working properly.
I guess the conduit is serving as the equipment grounding conductor. *Not
the best way to go for a pool.

Totally agree with this view. Don't know for sure, but seems to me
there are code issues here. Common sense says hire a competent
journeyman and redo the the system with proper grounds and at least
3/4" EMT. The OP definitely got ripped off by a couple of hacks. Sad.

Joe