The [censored] is with my pool? Elec engineers pls!
 

So I'm back in TX helping my mom move house. There's a pool in the back yard, ~20 years old, full-size, below ground. Some years ago I noticed that there was something leaking current into the water from the light on the deep end; if you get your head next to the light when it's on (since disconnected, obv), you see stars and taste metal. Just the other day I noticed the handrail is also running a mild current; if you get your hand wet, then grab it, your hand and forearm tingle with the slight shock. It's intermittent, though; sometimes there's no detectable charge. WTF could be causing this? Seems like something we might want to clear up before the sale.

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this seems like fun, why fix it?

For Sale: TX house with built in pool o' fun.

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I think you need to just take a sip of the kool-aid and learn pick up. This will all work itself out.

Yugoslav

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this seems like fun, why fix it?

For Sale: TX house with built in pool o' fun.

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I thought the light thing was kinda cool when I found it, but my mother was, of course, horrified.

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I think you need to just take a sip of the kool-aid and learn pick up. This will all work itself out.

Yugoslav

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Yeah, glad we could get that out of the way...

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Does the family that's moving in look like this?

http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/9928/500xh6.jpg

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Married couple; the dude is a silvery-haired Hispanic gentleman. I'm not hip to your reference.

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sorry, it's the best pic I could find for the actual family but it's a reference to syriana, in which a kid dies because light shorts out in the pool.

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Do you have a shed/workshop/detached garage/anything connected to the main house with underground power?

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Don't fix it and and don't worry about it.