[TowerTalk] exploding foundations and semantic quibblesregarding Ufer & "Single Point" grounds

[Peter Voelpel]

It does not matter what kind of ground system you use as long the conductors
are not running through the concrete but outside to prevent explosion of the
concrete.

Peter 

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Sent: Freitag, 14. September 2007 14:58
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Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] exploding foundations and semantic
quibblesregarding Ufer & "Single Point" grounds

>
> It was written, regarding UFER grounds:
>
> "Sinking the ground rod several inches below the bottom of the 
> foundation hole and only running copper wire out the bottom of the 
> concrete is no problem. If house foundations use copper wire for Ufer 
> grounds, then it sounds safe to assume that copper embedded in 
> concrete does not eventually corrode away."
>
> WRONG!  You want to divert strike current around the tower foundation, 
> not through it.  The conductor will be evaporated, exploding the 
> foundation.
>

So are you saying that you don't believe in Ufer grounds?  If I understand
them correctly, the whole point is to develop a low impedance path to ground
through the concrete. 

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