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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: vk3pa@vk3pa.com
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:13:26 -0600
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I run rf earth separated from the Power ac supply service no connection between the two.. de vk3pa


Quoting Jeff Blaine <keepwalking188@yahoo.com>:

Question on the optimal routing of strap to realize a single point ground.

My shack antenna entrance panel and the mains AC power meter box are along one wall ? separated by about 20?. There is a ground system under the antenna entrance panel ? with the usual set of polyphasers for the coax and MOV for the control lines.

The breaker boxes are on the inside of the same wall, a couple of feet below the power meter mains inlet.

The shack is centered along the same inside wall; about 5? from the breaker box on the left, and about 15? or so to the antenna entrance panel. On the shack table is a bus-bar where the gear is individually connected to in a star-configuration; one braid-type jumper from the bus bar to each shack rig or accessory.

What?s the best way to effect a single point ground in this combination?

I think that a single strap run from the bus-bar to the antenna entrance box. And another run from the bus-bar to the breaker box. Both of those runs would be inside the house and along the shack wall. However, I also see that it?s desirable to bond the meter to the antenna entrance panel outside of the house. Or should I do both? Or something else?

Thanks.

73/jeff/ac0c
www.ac0c.com
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