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Jim:
Read the Low Voltage Handbook and more of this now makes complete sense. My plan is to run a #10 insulated copper wire from the main ground location in the electrical room at the end of my building out and up and then horizontally along the outside brick wall at about the height of the mount for my antenna. From what you are saying, that single #10 lead can be bonded to the short (probably 24" or less) piece of mast pipe that runs between the two 12" wall mounts up to the base of the 40" X 2" wifi antenna AND to the ground lug on the gas discharge that is screwed into the connector at the base of the antenna mount (inline to the coax cable). Do I have this correct? Actually, there will be only a very short piece of #10 from the mast to the discharge unit. Does it matter which one I connect to first prior to looping over to the other? Jim Lux wrote: Do I need to provide one ground for the mounting pipe (mast) that secures the base of the antenna (the aluminum sleeve that contains the connector at the base) to the brick wall and a second ground to the grounding lug on the inline gas discharge unit? Not necessarily. You can daisy chain to a certain extent, but you should consider the implications for your overvoltage protection. Too much running hither and yon will increase the inductance of the grounding line, and depending on what your equipment is grounded to, that can actually make things worse. (i.e. if your internal equipment is grounded to the "green wire ground" in the wall receptacle, and the transient suppressor is grounded to a different wire following a different path, then you can have pretty big voltages between the two.) |
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