Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2017 11:20:46 -0700
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Grounding of cables to tower? (N3AE)
< Without the transformer but with ground carried between
<buildings, a panelboard and earth ground are still required in the
<second building but neutral and ground MUST NOT be bonded in that panel.
### Thats cuz they want ALL fault current to travel through the ground
conductor between the
panels...and NOT the neutral. Hence neutral + ground bonded at main panel
only....where your drop wire comes
in from pole pig out in street. Sub panel has neutral + ground wires
separate, NOT bonded in sub panel. Same deal
if a sub panel used inside a home. I use a 100A sub panel just to get from
one side of basement to the other. Same deal,
neutral + ground bonded in main 200A panel..... but separated in 100A sub
panel.
> A 15 kVA "dry transformer" is about $500
### That seems pretty cheap for a 15 KVA CCS xfmr. Electrician ham buddy
uses those, when say a cottage
out in the back 40, is a long way from main house, and you dont want voltage
drops. Typ they have a 240 vac
primary....and a 600 vac sec at house end....and a 600 vac primary..and 240
/ 120 sec at cottage end. Cottage
end may also have pri taps at 600, 580, 560 vac. Then standard 600 vac rated
wire used between the 2 x xfmrs.
Jim VE7RF
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