[TowerTalk] Ground rod connectors

[Alan Beagley]

Yes, they do need to be checked regularly and retightened if necessary. 
   A suggestion soemebody made on the alt.home.repair newsgroup (a 
couple of long threads about grounding recently) was to protect the 
connections with a capped PVC pipe that can be removed easily when the 
connection needs to be checked.

I believe the NEC does specify solid copper wire.

Alan AB2OS


On 03/13/04 10:36 am N2TK put fingers to keyboard and launched the 
following message into cyberspace:

> When I lived in New Jersey I used those bronze ground rod clamps on all my
> ground rods. The tops of the ground rods were buried about 6".  When I was
> getting ready to move,  I pulled up all the coax and ground wires. I was
> surprised to find that those bronze clamps were loose on every ground rod
> after 8 years. Maybe you need to retighten them every so often?
> That is why for every connection to the ground rods I now use Cadweld
> one-shots. Also recommend you use solid copper wire over stranded wire. Only
> got about 8 years of use out of the stranded copper wire here in New York
> State.