[TowerTalk] Question about ground

[Jim Brown]

On 9/9/2012 6:01 PM, Matt Fearnow wrote:
> Well the electrical service comes in to the back of the house.  I need to
> go from there to the side and up to the front to where the entrance into
> the basement where my shack will be.  A few years ago, an engineer (now SK)
> had advised me to tie all grounds together, from the electrical, to the
> "tower", to the cable shields, to the ground plate in the house for the
> gear.

You got excellent advice.

>    IIRC, was to allow all points to have equal paths to ground.

Sort of -- the intent is to have all parts of the building stay as close 
as practical to the same potential.  It won't be perfect, because 
lightning will induce current on that wiring too, by virtue of its 
proximity, so think of this very good practice as minimizing the 
potential for damage.
> Else if not, if current came in from the eletrical panel, through the gear, and
> out through their ground (if that was the shortest path)

That certainly can happen.

73, Jim K9YC

73, Jim K9YC