How to Wire A Hot Tub Spa 240v 50amp | DIY Electrical Wiring | Did I Wire It Correctly?

In this Video I wire my hot tub with a 240v 50amp wire and panel. Let me know in the comments down below if there Is anything else I need to consider. I am not a professional, just a DIY home owner trying to save a few bucks. Thanks for watching, please like and subscribe.

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[Innocueous]

Best wiring video I've seen in awhile! Bravo Myk!

[MTHPowerWash]

Just brought home a free 3 person hot tub for the wife and I today, everything works and it was well maintained by an older lady that used it for therapy. She could no longer physically get in and out and it was free for us since it freed up her deck and she didn’t need to pay to have to thrown out

Buying wire and conduit tomorrow

Thanks for this 👍

[jaredwins]

Great work man! After watching your vid (and others) I was able to get our spa wired up and ready for service. Your video was the most helpful and well done. This saved me close to $1, 000 so the least I can do is drop you a comment and like :)
fyi to anyone who reads this --> 6awg wire is code for the 50amp breaker in the greatest country on earth 8awg might "work", but isnt code here in USA...

[Dryvlyne]

Just wanted to come back to this video and say thank you for sharing your experience. This gave me the information and confidence I needed to do my own wiring for our recently installed spa.

The 6 gauge wire was a lot more difficult to work with than I expected. The spa disconnect panel leaves little room to easily manage the wiring. Heck, just stripping the wiring was even a bit of a challenge. The biggest obstacle though was getting the wiring through about 20ft of conduit. After several failed attempts, I wrapped the wires in electrical tape about every 6-8" inches and then rubbed some dieelectric grease all over the exterior of the wires. Even with that it was still challenging getting the wires pushed through the conduit; my hands were quite sore the next day!

All that said though we're quite enjoying the new spa! :)

[privatesender]

Great job on showing the simplicity (yet complexly important) wiring of a circuit to a 240v hot tub. Can't say how many times I've missed the top plate when boring a hole myself - made me feel good knowing that somebody else has done the same thing!

[will_dikfit]

Great video, thanks, no annoying music like many people do, nice simple straight forward job and great explanation, i just ran the wires for mine, but wanted to watch video on outside spa box hook up, just to make sure it's done right, safe, and nobody gets electrocuted. So thanks again, at least what i can do is comment and complement you, have a great day

[osmanyh]

The only part I needed was when you connect the cable to the box and you skipped that part 😂

[AK-ozew]

Great trick to use a junction box for conduit transition and no wire interpretations, will do the same.

[TheLostAdventuress]

This is some great work if you aren’t an experienced electrician. I’m impressed

[thsustainalism]

Thanks a lot for the complete instructions

[addii]

Man thats a good set up. I love the little junction box before the change over to flex to the hot tub. Everything looks really good. I was looking these videos up because i did all the wiring for my parents hot tub. We got super lucky and just came out of the bottom of the breaker panel with flex, punched a hole through the wall to the outside and ran PVC to the disconnect directly. And then a little flex to the hot tub from the disconnect. Their tub was alot closer to the house and all. It was fun doing this and i just started it up today.

[keithharrington]

you intend to install a spa like a swimming pool, special requirements for grounding exist. Connecting a #8 wire to rebar is the scary one. This is a remove the concrete and start over kind of oops.

Make sure you get all the right info before you start.

Nec 680 has requirements for spa's and refers you to earlier code chapters for some requirements. There are overhead distances for wires and restrictions for wires under your pool or spa along with distance requirements for electrical components and more.

For this install, the National Electric Code (NEC), article/table 250.122 calls for an equipment grounding conductors of #10 copper wire for up to 60 amps. Your cable back to the panel should have at least that from the manufacturer. Also, your ground to the spa must be insulated as yours is.

Looks pretty good, but I may have missed something.

[scottboyne]

Its very easy to wire the disconnect box wrong so i commend you on getting it right. I too wired my own spa, actually i wired the spa and disconnect myself. A lot if people take that neutral curly wire and run it to the grounding bar, that is wrong and dangerous. Job well done

[RyokoSix]

Can you share more about the hot tub side - when planning, how to know where to come up out of the ground for the wiring? Which side of the hot tub? How does it go from that outdoor box into the hot tub? I don't often see a box sticking up on a post like that at other peoples rentals

[joshlavecchia]

In the spa pack I would have definitely wired the neutral to the top lug to match the other line side wires but other then that good job, you might have been fine with #8 as well but nothing wrong with #6

[anthonygoverno]

Nice job I thought that was very professional work, are you an electrician or just a homeowner that knows what to do?

[TylerBodovinac]

Hey quick question. For your main where you ran your 6/3 did you use a 50amp breaker as well?

[kurtwz]

Good job using 6/3 AWG cable. 6/3 AWG is needed whenever the span is > 100'. Otherwise, 8/3 AWG is needed. Based on what I read, however, Romex is not intended to be installed outside. There's special underground wire. Am I off base on that?

[NikoJacobsen]

Can I ask why you used a THHN wire from you disconnect box to the hot tub instead of running the 6/3 non metallic for the whole job ?

[kimberlywood]

Great video. I may have missed it, but could you say what size flex conduit you used? It looks like 3/4, but I thought that may be too small for #6 wire.