Or you are the ground! :-) Open your panel cover, if you are comfortable, and look for copper to grounding bar installation. I had my electrician bind an around the foundation wire to my box and then to the rebar. At the time I built there was no inspector, 2004. Can you believe it? Lots of pathetic electrical work in the world. Wonder why all the fires?
73, Bill K9YEQ -----Original Message----- From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-boun...@mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Jim Miller Sent: Monday, April 17, 2017 4:04 PM To: ab2tc <ab...@arrl.net> Cc: Elecraft Reflector <elecraft@mailman.qth.net> Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT; electrical safety I'm guessing you and your neighbors have grounding via a basement slab Ufer. 73 jim ab3cv On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 5:00 PM, ab2tc <ab...@arrl.net> wrote: > Hi, > > This is totally off topic; I apologize. > > I just received the new ARRL publication "grounding and bonding for > the radio amateur". It is very interesting reading. I see that the NEC > requires two ground rods for regular power installations; never mind > any antennas. I swear that when when I moved into this house there > were absolutely no ground rods installed. I just inspected our power > pole that supplies our power. I could see no wires going in to the > ground. So I have no idea where our "green wire" came from. > > But I have have installed two 8 foot ground rods to ground my antennas > and they are bonded to the AC entry panel. But what's up with this? I > bet my neighbors have no ground rods installed either. > > Knut - AB2TC > > > > -- > View this message in context: http://elecraft.365791.n2. > nabble.com/OT-electrical-safety-tp7629429.html > Sent from the Elecraft mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > ______________________________________________________________ > 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 Message delivered to > j...@jtmiller.com > ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to k9...@live.com ______________________________________________________________ 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 Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com
