Julio-
I was more concerned with routing the conductors from each leg of the tower to
the first ring of ground rods. I used 2” wide copper ribbons with a slow arc
down to each rod. From each of the 3 rods I then branched out the required
distance to other rods using stranded 2 awg copper and cad-welding them at each
rod.
I wrote a monthly newsletter column. If you start with the Sept 2017 issue you
can see the write up on welding and ground rods at
http://n4lnr.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/LARC-9-2017C.pdf. You can go
forward or backwards to see the entire tower installation spanning more than a
year.
Dick, K0CAT
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Richard (Dick) Blumenstein
> On Sep 3, 2019, at 3:25 PM, Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
>
>> On 9/3/2019 5:24 AM, Julio Peralta via TowerTalk wrote:
>> I've read that when using an 8' ground rod , the rods should be separated by
>> 2X the length of the rods or 16'. However unless I missed it I haven't seen
>> a distance mentioned for the first rods from the base.
>
> If the tower base is a Ufer ground, 8-16 ft is a good spacing for the first
> rods. If the base is not Ufer, I'd go for 8 ft. Either way, one to each leg.
>
> 73, Jim K9YC
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