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Re: [TowerTalk] bonding to AC power box or inside fuse panel?

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] bonding to AC power box or inside fuse panel?
From: Jim Brown <jim@audiosystemsgroup.com>
Reply-to: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:24:00 -0800
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On 1/21/2013 2:51 PM, Jeff Blaine wrote:
What’s the best way to effect a single point ground in this combination?

Stop worrying about "single point" and simply bond EVERYTHING together by the shortest practical path. In the power entrance panel for ANY premises, earth must be bonded to the enclosure itself, and there must be a bond between neutral and that enclosure. By EVERYTHING I mean everything in your home that is grounded, including CATV entrance, Telco entrance, power entrance, your antenna entrance, your shack operating desk, structural steel if there is any, cold water (if it's metallic), lightning protection, etc.

In general, you can have as many earth connections as you like, they can be anywhere you like, but they MUST all be bonded together. Anything NOT bonded is unsafe.

73,
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