Neat (?) Grounding Idea
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:10:07 -0600, Diana Satyr
wrote: For those few of us whose radio happens to be located just a few feet from the main ground rod for the house, why don't we ground our radios by just pluging a bit of thick wire into the grounding hole of a standard 3-wire AC sockek? Looks like the house ground would be a decent RF ground when the run is just about 5 feet from the socket in question to the ground rod. Anyone know any drawbacks to this? Anyone know what guage of wire would fit snugly into that hole? (It's not #10. I tried that. I don't have any thicker wire to try.) Moonman 1/01/07 I agree with the other reply. What I would do is buy another clamp for the ground rod. Clean the area on the rod and attach your new clamp and ground wire. I would not trust the connections in the electric panel especially if the panel and ground setup is 5+ years old. Also, this is the approved way of grounding it. In the event of a lightning stirke to the mains, that connection to the panel even though it is a short distance away from the ground rod may develop quite a high potential. Jim |
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