I bought a house which has a pool that we believe to have been built in 2001. I am installing a new pool heater and ran into the situation where it asks me to attach the bonding wire. The problem is I do not see one. The only wire going to the pump is through the conduit. The old heater did not have anything either. The electrical box does have a sheathed wire that dives directly into the ground but it seems to be regular 14-3 wire (not 8) and is only split off to wires inside the box. Is there a way to check for the bonding wire? If there is none is there a way to create a semblance of one? I read somewhere that you can take an 8 AWG wire and run it from the junction box to all the lugs available as a best effort without having to rip everything up. Thoughts on how to check and if that workaround makes sense at all?
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