On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:25:46 -0500, "Lenny"
wrote:

Where's the best place to purchase a grounding rod?
Any secrets to installing it?
Thanks all.
Lenny


Home Depot and Lowe's Home Improvement both sell 8 foot copper plated
rods of good quality. Or any electrical supply store sellsl them.
Radio Shack has them, but the one I bought there rusted easily.

Driving them in the ground is another matter. I have an official
ground rod driver that I got from Glen Martin, the tower people. It's
a piece of pipe that fits over the rod, and has handles on each side
so the pipe can be pounded on the rod, driving it down. Similar
devices for driving metal fence posts into the ground are available
wherever fencing supplies are sold.

Or, you can just pound the thing in with a hammer, and a little help
from the garden hose.

I have solid rock about one foot down -- I ended up just putting down
a short piece of copper pipe, then attaching two buried, 70-foot wires
to the pipe. If you can't go down, go horizontal.

bob
k5qwg

Bob [K5QWG],

Driven Ground Rods - Three Common Ways :
http://www.sonoma-county.org/prmd/do...Electrodes.gif


* Straight Down {Vertical} at 8 Feet

* 45 Degree Angle {Sloper} 8 Feet

* Laying Flat {Horizontal} 'under' the Surface
of the Ground 2 1/2 Feet or more and 8 Feet long.

hope this helps - iane ~ RHF