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Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding

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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding
From: Jim Lux <jimlux@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2013 20:58:57 -0700
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On 7/18/13 12:43 PM, David Gilbert wrote:

I didn't say it wasn't possible to do so.  I said that the majority of
residential Ufer grounds in the footing bring the ground wire up to the
breaker panel from outside the footing.

That's the way virtually all the ones here in Southern California are done, and it's done with a wire laid in the trench with the rebar before the pour. I'm going to guess that they don't do the clamp to rebar is because it takes more stuff to carry on the truck and probably takes longer AND it requires two different trades to work together.

If the rebar guys do their work, and then later the electrical guy comes by and lays the wire in along side, it's just easier. They have a big old spool of the bare wire on the truck,

The copper wire comes up through the concrete next to the conduits for the underground utilities and winds up inside the garage wall, most likely.
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