I did a ground rod for a similar situation. Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Jun 24, 2015 5:53 PM, "That One Guy /sarcasm" <thatoneguyst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We have a new pop going up im putting the enclosure in tommorrow. > > We get our power from a secondary distribution panel on the leg. This > penel is not directly grounded locally, there is metal conduit going into > the ground where it gets its feed from the primary somewhere else. There is > a 4 o6 6 guage copper ground that their panel in the secondary distrubution > is bonded to, I assume it terminates on the other end of the conduit at the > main. > > We just have a 15 amp breaker in there feeding over to our enclosure via > some non metalic liquid tight. The ground is bonded to our enclosure bond. > This is only 14 guage stranded (its like 6 feet) > > Im figuring at minimum I need to run a bonding wire over and attach to > their copper. > > What I dont know is if I am doing more harm than good by putting in a > ground rod as well for our enclosure. I can make no site changes, and the > site manager doesnt know anything about it so doing it "right" really isnt > an option here. > > I just need to know whether its potentially worse to have my enclosure on > a fresh ground rod potentially making our enclosure a good path for them, > If I place the ground rod between or enclosure and their copper I would at > least be isolating our enclosure, but have the potential for causing issues > for them. > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team > as part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team. >
