[AT] grounds

[George Willer]

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

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> 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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