[AT] grounds

Larry D Goss rlgoss at evansville.net
Mon Dec 17 11:06:27 PST 2007


That's the first question out of the inspector's mouth when the wiring in my 
new shop was inspected seven years ago.  He wanted to be sure first off if 
there was a second ground.  It wouldn't have passed if there was.

Larry

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Willer" <gwill at gwill.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'" 
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Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 12:42 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] grounds


> Warren,
>
> Your friend was right... At least according to my old NEC handbook.  NEC
> REQUIRES the neutral and ground to be bonded at only one point.  A second,
> remote ground rod is prohibited.
>
> George Willer
>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Mogrits
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>> Subject: [AT] grounds
>>
>> This is all anecdotal but nevertheless:
>>
>> I have a 10kw briggs powered generator with a grounding lug on the
>> generator
>> housing. When I use the genset to power the house I connect the
>> houseground
>> to the generator by a copper wire I leave connected and coiled up just
>> below
>> the house service.
>>
>> When I built my shop a few hundred feet from the house and wanted to 
>> power
>> it from the house service instead of a separate meter I asked my
>> electrical
>> engineer friend about installing a ground rod and he advised me to NOT
>> separately ground the building. He says the ground should come from the
>> same
>> source as the power, so I ran four-wire mobilehome service cable up to 
>> the
>> shop.
>>
>> Warren
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