What you needs to do is put in a couple ground rods around your house.
Since this is a new construction, you may consider running a counterpoise
around the structure, hook up a few ground rods on this counterpoise. Bond
the foundation rebar to the counterpoise. Make sure all the metal panels of
the structure are electrically bonded together and bonded to the
counterpoise.
Then
Put in a proper lighting protection system of Air terminals and down
conductors. Also bonded to the counterpoise.
Then if you puts up a tower and antenna cable grounding bulkhead (at the
entry point to the house, these should also be bonded to the counterpoise
too.
Wilson Lui
ATI Tectoniks
wilsonlui@atitec.com
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From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of doc
Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 11:43 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Re: Floating Ground Steel Building?
I just left a meeting with the builder of our new steel home
where I discovered something troubling -- the steel roof and
wall materials appear to be floating above ground on top of
the concrete slab!
The roof and wall are 10" x 48" wide sections bonded together
and along the bottom of the wall set into a metal channel
fastened to the concrete with embedded anchor bolts -- but
those bolts are buried in the slab, none of them are grounded.
So when I bring everything to the entry panel the only point
of ground is the three planned 20' rods -- for the entire
steel house shell as well as for the power line, phone,
tower-related cables, and well cables.
I have been counting on the steel shell wicking off lightning
energy through multiple grounding points minimizing the collection
of energy at any single point.
Should I place ground rods at the corners, and perhaps at
additional 10 or 20 foot locations around the perimeter of the
60 x 40 structure, and tie them to the base plate of the
outer metal wall?
The lightning storm that just rolled through reminded me to take seriously!
Thanks! & 73, doc kd4e
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