Using a 5.5 kw hottub heater to heat a 18ft intex pool?

[Mattiemo]

thanks for the reply. can you explain the electrical bond issue or put a link to it. i am not really jerry rigging it. the heater along with a pump and filter are all plummed together and bolted to a pallet. the heater has a ground wire that runs off the copper heating pipe that would of course be grounded when i set it up. Is there something i dont understand that makes it any more unsafe (when hooked up properly) then a purpose build electric pool heater.

[PoolDoc]

Bonding does not apply to a an AG pool.

Packaged spas tend to have built in safeties to prevent you from 'lighting' up the water with 220v.

No, this is not a conversion I want to support here. Electricity and water mix in fatal ways. A chlorine oops might burn some skin or -- at worst -- put out an eye. A 220V oops will put you or someone in your family in the grave.

I've seen far more 'near misses' with bad electrical connections at pools, then I've ever seen with chemicals.

Nope. Not going there.

What I said before remains true: if you knew enough to be able to do this SAFELY, you'd know enough to not need our advice. The very fact that you are asking PROVES that you do not know how to do this safely. God sometimes spares children and fools . . . but depending on that is not a safety plan.

DO NOT DO IT!