[TowerTalk] Grounding AN Wireless Towers

Jim Lux jimlux at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 3 13:52:45 EST 2013


On 3/3/13 10:36 AM, Jerry Gardner wrote:
> AN Wireless towers don't have round cross-section legs, but rather use flat
> steel bent at a 60 degree angle for the legs. Most tower grounding
> solutions that I've seen use fittings that clamp onto a round tower leg.
>
> For those of you you have installed AN Wireless (or similar towers), how
> have you attached the grounding strap or wire to the tower legs at the base?
>

I haven't done it on those towers, but I have used clamp on grounding 
lugs that grab onto structural steel.  It looks kind of like a couple 
parallel prongs with a bolt through one side to do the clamping.

Very similar to the lugs you use to clamp to a bus bar.



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