[AT] grounds

[charlie hill]

Len I wondered the same thing and what about if you are in a sub-division 
with houses 20 feet apart side to side and less than 100 feet apart in the 
back yard.  All of them being serviced from the same transformer sitting on 
a concrete slab in the corner of one yard. Like you, I'm not arguing.  The 
explaination from the NEC makes sense to me.  I'm just trying to understand.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Len Rugen" <rugenl at yahoo.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 3:00 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] grounds


> OK, If you are fed from a transformer on a pole, that pole likely has a 
> copper wire to a coil ground on the bottom of the pole.   I had a meter 
> base on my house and the required copper ground rod there.  Then we added 
> a 2nd service with a meter base on the pole for Dad's mobile home.  Now 
> that that is gone, I had them "combine" my service so I wasn't paying the 
> minimum charge twice.  They moved my meter to the base on the pole, 
> connected my feeder to that and jumpered the meter base on the house. 
> Don't I now have 2 grounds 30' appart?
>
> Plus every utility pole is grounded in like manner, so I have 2 more 
> grounds 50-60 yards each way.
>
> I'm not arguing... I'm building a shop off the 2nd feed from the new meter 
> base that I didn't plan on grounding.
>
> Len Rugen
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