Phil, My house is about the same vintage. I had the same situation, no ground rod at the service entrance. I put in a ground rod myself. It may or may not have had an adequate ground before but I figured putting in a redundant ground with the ground rod would be a good idea, plus it brings it up to current code requirements.
Bob K6UJ On Apr 6, 2011, at 8:44 AM, Phil Townsend wrote: > I really hate to bring it up again... But hear me out: > > My A/C service entrance does not have a ground rod. > My house was built about 25 years ago.' > I pulled the service front panel and found the following: > All the grounds and neutrals are bonded to the metal chassis as they are > supposed to be. > But there is no wire for a connection to a ground ROD! > It looks like they used a solid metal pipe that houses the big A/C wire > inside of this pipe. > This pipe IS connected to the service entrance by some metal gland nuts. > The 2 1/2" pipe goes outside of the house and is buried underground. It goes > off to a transformer that is about 100 yards away. > So my question: > IS this pipe MY Ground rod? > > > Don't follow > My Tweets > http://twitter.com/PhilTownsend > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
