[TowerTalk] Lightning protection - length of grounding rodsruns from tower?

[Ray Benny]

Thanks to all who made comments.

My take away is to use more shorter ground rod runs from the tower, say 30
- 40 ft, than a smaller number of longer runs.

I will see how many 30 ft radial runs I can make using 8 ft ground rods
while keeping 16 ft separation between the rods. Guess I could pull out a
drawing compass and scale the radials lengths, then measure between the 16
ft points. Boy, this make me old! Haven't done this in ages, especially on
paper...

Ray,
N6VR



On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 11:36 AM, john at kk9a.com <john at kk9a.com> wrote:

> Less effective than what?  Two 8' ground rods 8' apart are less effective
> than a single 8' rod?
>
> John KK9A
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> To:     "Jim Lux" <jimlux at earthlink.net>
> Subject:        Re: [TowerTalk] Lightning protection - length of grounding
> rodsruns from tower?
> From:   charlie at thegallos.com
> Date:   Thu, 29 Jan 2015 11:37:40 -0500
>
>
> I can't think of a good way to word it - except may to say a pair of rods
> closer than 2x is less effective -
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