When we put in a 200A service, there was the regular three ground rods
for the panel and meter. However, the grounding in the house ranged from
sensical, to you gotta be kidding.. As the electrician was hooking the
ground wire to the fitting to which the plastic water line from the
street attached, he commented" Yah, I know, it doesn't make sense to me
either, but code requires it".
On 3/16/2016 Wednesday 1:01 AM, donovanf@starpower.net wrote:
Hi Bill,
That's not an uncommon error, and potentially a dangerous error in
if a lightning strike that causes sparking. Google will help you find
much information about grounding and bonding of gas pipes, just
one example:
http://www.ecmag.com/section/codes-standards/grounding-and-bonding-gas-piping
You definitely should fix it!
73
Frank
W3LPL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Price" <billp7634@sbcglobal.net>
To: "EDDIE J EDWARDS" <eedwards@oppd.com>
Cc: "RFI Reflector" <rfi@contesting.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 7:46:04 PM
Subject: Re: [RFI] House Ground
My house was built in 2005... Although there's a ground for the panel, I have
noticed that there is another ground for the natural gas manifold that feeds
all the gas appliances. #6 wire goes from that manifold ground to the copper
pipes of the water heater, where the grounding wire wraps several times around
the copper pipes..... Good, yes? LMAO!. The copper pipes (inlet and outlet to
the water heater) are connected to pex. For those of you not familiar with pex,
pex is the new water pipe runs and is plastic. So ground at this point,
essentially goes to plastic. BRILLIANT!!
Painstakingly sent with battered thumbs from my iPhone
On Mar 15, 2016, at 3:34 PM, EDWARDS, EDDIE J <eedwards@oppd.com> wrote:
Tom,
If you have 3 conductor outlets (not just 2 cond), your electrical panel
probably has a ground wire connected to your cold water pipe somewhere. That's
how I found mine wired before I added a connection to my outdoor ground rods
along the back of the house for my ham shack. Now everything's bonded together
on an underground buss. My house was built in about 1977-78 so cold water
copper pipes were probably still code then. I think recent water piping changes
may have made that a thing of the past.
73, de ed -K0iL
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I have just noticed that my home built in the 60's does not have an earth ground outside. Could that be
causing some some of my weird RFI situations I am encountering. Been here a year almost now and just
now really getting on the air.Symptoms ate noisy monitor (already put a lot of chokes on the leads),
Monitor screen blacks out when treansmitting on 40 ... Ideas?Tom K5IID Finally there is a bit of joy in
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