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Grounding
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Depends on your purpose, and local codes.
Are you looking for electrical safety ground? Lightning protector ground for your CO phone lines? Clean ground for reference doing electronic lab work?
I'm always mistrustful of things not ENGINEERED to be low-impedance grounds that are designed not to corrode. Structural steel is rusty from the factory, and the iron-workers don't think about Volts and Ohms. But that's just personal.
Are you looking for electrical safety ground? Lightning protector ground for your CO phone lines? Clean ground for reference doing electronic lab work?
I'm always mistrustful of things not ENGINEERED to be low-impedance grounds that are designed not to corrode. Structural steel is rusty from the factory, and the iron-workers don't think about Volts and Ohms. But that's just personal.
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If the structural iron is in your TR then you need to bond to it. You should not however rely on that as your means of bonding to the electrical ground.
You should have a bonding conductor back to the electrical ground. You should bond ALL metal parts in a TR to help lower the ground reference as low as possible.
Proper grounding and bonding is explained in ANSI/TIA/EIA-607A.
Richard S. Anderson, RCDD
You should have a bonding conductor back to the electrical ground. You should bond ALL metal parts in a TR to help lower the ground reference as low as possible.
Proper grounding and bonding is explained in ANSI/TIA/EIA-607A.
Richard S. Anderson, RCDD
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