Copper wire has gone through the roof! I was selling 25' of #4 AWG 7 strand stranded copper wire for $12.50. New price for 25' is $37.25 Amp's Cloks are very good for clamping a #4 wire to a ground r
Well we might as well shut down this Tower Talk reflector for as much good as it's doing... I can't believe after weeks of discussions regarding proper ground system bonding, this post has been made.
Uh..I'd be interesting in hearing what is being 'violated' by using a stranded ground wire (having put in miles of it at many sites according to the applicable codes). Also, exothermic is great. How
Well.. what might be good/standard practice in the commercial world may not be needed in the amateur world. It's all about risk acceptance. Consider transient protection for ham gear.. one could take
And just to put it all in perspective, consider how all the utililties entering your house are grounded. Is it an array of ground rods bussed together 00 cooper and Cadwelded connections? No, its a s
But if your munisipality requires *you* to comply with the NEC, and if your insurance co. won't pay out if your house burns down because they allege that *you* did not follow the NEC, it may not do y
Good point, Mike. However, the utility grounds are really designed more for handling fault currents from inadvertent line/ground shorts and the like. As for CATV, they're notorious for being out of c
I've seen a few mentions of stranded wire being bad for a ground system. Why? On the positive side, I'd think that the stranded wire would have a bit more connection with the surrounding earth since
Author: "K8RI on Tower talk" <k8ri-tower@charter.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:03:43 -0400
All of them. Here the number of ground rods is determined by the soil and soil conditions. I have mostly wet clay with a water table that is *usually* quite high and still had to put in several grou
Yes, that's my point, Jim. There are thousands of homes with above ground utilities in lightning prone Florida that have nothing more in the way of lightning protection between the long wire antenna