I have a pool with the GFI on the panel in the house, I only have 2 hot wires wires and a ground.?

Question

I want to put the GFI out at the pool but am told I need a neutral for the GFI to work, is there any other way to do this with out running a new line out to the pool.

Answer 1

No, you need a line, a ground and a neutral for the 120 VAC  GFCI to work correctly.

Answer 2

No.

Answer 3

2 hot wires and a ground sounds like a 220 circut go to your panel box find the breaker and wires for that circut and take out the breaker change it to 15-20 amp breaker single pole youll need a blank isolate a neutral wire hook it to the common lugs in panel box then wire the gfi the right way should work if you dont know what your doing call a pro

Answer 4

If your line is 120v, then what you say is 2 hot wires, is actually 1 hot and 1 neutral.  if it is 240, it has 2 opposing hots.  Look at the breaker where the line is hooked up.  If it has only 1 wire to it, it is 120v.  The other wire going to the common block is your "neutral."

Answer 5

If you know for certain that you have the right cable, then check to see if the two wires in the cable are landed on a breaker, or if one is on the bus bar and the other on the breaker.  You say you have a ground I am assuming that it is bare.  Leave it grounded.  To use the others for what you want you will need to convert it to 120volt if it is 220volt.  If it is 120 already then just install the gfci making sure you get the hot on the dark s***w, the neutral on the silver s***w, and the ground on the green s***w.  If this is powering your pool pump then you want to leave the 220volt and run a new cable.  In your panel you will have a bus bar for neutrals and a bus bar for grounds if your house is newer.  If your house is older you will have one bus bar for both.  Two of the wires will need to go to the bus bar( again neutral on the neutral, ground on the ground- or both on the same bar depending on what you have) and one to a breaker.  I would install a 15 amp breaker, to make sure your not over rated. I don't know your skill level, but DO NOT TOUCH the bus bar the breakers are mounted to IT IS HOT!!!  I hope this helps, just please be careful.  A certain amount of fear in this business will keep you alive, it keeps you cautious.