[TowerTalk] Tower grounding cable...???
Michael Germino
ad6aa at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 3 09:12:42 EST 2008
Not really viewing as separate, being bolted to tower, it's part of the tower. It's just most pictures I see, show the legs bonded to rods and then to the ufer ground. Are you saying to do this and bond the bolts also?
Mike
AD6AA
--- On Tue, 12/2/08, Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com> wrote:
> From: Jim Brown <jim at audiosystemsgroup.com>
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Tower grounding cable...???
> To: "towertalk at contesting.com" <towertalk at contesting.com>
> Date: Tuesday, December 2, 2008, 10:52 PM
> On Tue, 2 Dec 2008 21:22:42 -0800 (PST), Michael Germino
> wrote:
>
> >Should the bolts for the tower be bonded to the
> structural steel in
> >the concrete base?
>
> why are we viewing the bolts as different from the tower or
> the
> tower base? Electrically they must all be bonded together!
> Yes, the
> tower base should be bonded to the structural steel in the
> concrete
> base, and to the earth electrode system. Yes, we need to
> avoid
> dissimilar metal issues.
>
> 73,
>
> Jim K9YC
>
>
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