It is under service bonding I beleive its article 350 but I will check it out.I
beleive the reason is the brass and gal pipe have tendacy to oxidize quicker
than zinc to gal.
"Dubovsky, George" <George.Dubovsky@andrew.com> wrote:
>I haven't been able to locate this reference to zinc ground strap in my code
>book; would you please provide a section number?
>
>geo - n4ua
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>> To: "Rob Atkinson,K5UJ"; towertalk@contesting.com
>> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ground strap to water pipe
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>> This info is wrong...You need to use a Zinc ground strap to Galvanized
>> pipe.This can be found in the National Electric Codebook.2005 version
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>> "Rob Atkinson, K5UJ" <k5uj@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>> >You need a brass clamp on the galv. steel pipe as a go-between for your
>> >copper strap. ?Home Depot sells a brass pipe clamp with the copper
>> hardware
>> >attached to bolt your strap to. ?Or else if you go in the back where they
>> >have their ground rods, conduit and other electrical stuff you will find
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>> >clamps and hardware to work something out. ? you just have to fix it so
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>> >copper is clamped to the brass, and the brass is on the pipe so the cu
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>> >steel don't touch each other.
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