- 21. [TowerTalk] Exothermic Welding? (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard Spindler)
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 08:50:24 -0400
- I am getting ready to install some ground rods for the tower. The PolyPhaser literature and, I believe, the NFPA literature talks about welding the ground wire to the rods with "exothermic welding."
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00677.html (8,227 bytes)
- 22. [TowerTalk] Exothermic Welding? (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard G. Spindler)
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:39:55 -0400
- OK Roger. Thanks for the graphic description. It gives me a good idea of what is involved. Doc, N9AM -- FAQ on WWW: http://www.contesting.com/towertalkfaq.html Submissions: towertalk@contesting.com A
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00701.html (9,481 bytes)
- 23. [TowerTalk] Exothermic Welding? (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard G. Spindler)
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 20:40:42 -0400
- I think I'll look to see if they have a web site... Doc, N9AM --Original Message-- From: Bob Wanderer <aa0cy@nwrain.com> To: 'Richard Spindler' <spindoc@digital.net>; TowerTalk Reflector <towertalk@c
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00702.html (11,472 bytes)
- 24. [TowerTalk] Exothermic Welding? (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard G. Spindler)
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 22:59:44 -0400
- They do have a web site, www.erico.com , and, interestingly, they manufacture not only the CADWeld system, but complete grounding systems and a thunderstorm warning system, too. They also sell coax a
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00709.html (11,326 bytes)
- 25. [TowerTalk] Routing wire from tower to ground for lightning protection (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard G. Spindler)
- Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 23:40:04 -0400
- read says that you must connect your ground system to the utility ground at the house entrance, else when you get a strike, it could come in through the coax and through your equipment to the house (
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00712.html (10,342 bytes)
- 26. [TowerTalk] Grounding Wire/Strip (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard Spindler)
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 12:42:10 -0400
- Boy. This just gets complicateder and complicateder. I was all set to do my ground system and grounding radials with #6 wire, and then in reading another treatise on grounding, I am told that this is
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00751.html (9,009 bytes)
- 27. [TowerTalk] Grounding Wire/Strip (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard Spindler)
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 13:25:04 -0400
- Wow! I think I'll listen to almost anything a man with a 500-foot tower in the back yard says! What a dream! Sounds like the 2/0 wire is the route to go. Here, I think the water table is at about fou
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00754.html (12,947 bytes)
- 28. [TowerTalk] Grounding Wire/Strip (score: 1)
- Author: spindoc@digital.net (Richard Spindler)
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:24:37 -0400
- I'll let somebody who knows something answer most of what you ask, but I can answer your first question. No, it is not necessary to drive ground rods to the water table for a good ground. I probably
- /archives//html/Towertalk/1999-10/msg00758.html (11,399 bytes)
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