[TowerTalk] Shack ground

Roger (K8RI) K8RI-on-TowerTalk at tm.net
Wed Jun 16 14:40:55 PDT 2010



On 6/16/2010 4:44 PM, Pete Smith wrote:
> See the latest QST for an interesting article by Jim, N3JT.  Experts on
> this list will probably weigh in, but the new thing I found was his
> bonding of the electrical outlet grounds in his shack to the shack's
> single point ground.  This is presumably intended to prevent the shack
> ground from rising too far above real ground in the event of a nearby
> lightning strike.
>
>    
I don't know if it'd meet code or not, but the idea is to have *all* 
equipment grounds rise to the same potential at the same time, or at 
least close to it.

73

Roger (K8RI)
> 73, Pete N4Z


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