Telamon wrote:

Like bpnjensen already posted a typical ground rod is copper plated
steel. Steel for strength pounding the rod into the ground and the
copper plating on the outside for conductivity.


Nope...

I have a feeling that the copper plating is for delaying the onset of
corrosion.

and a few hundred web sites agree with that opinion.

http://www.comm-omni.com/polyweb/coppergrrods.htm


mike