On 4/16/15 8:16 AM, Josh Baird wrote:
We recently had a site where an electrician installed a panel and his
own ground (rod) for the electrical/AC ground. We then installed our
equipment at the bottom of the tower and bonded everything in the
cabinet to the tower ground. This site took a pretty bad strike and it
was my understanding that this may have happened because the surge
traveled through our equipment and out of the AC/electrical ground
since it was the path of least resistance.
What equipment did you lose? AP's at the top or equipment at the base?
The ground the electricians put in is usually crap. Code tells them
they have to run a ground rod - so they do. If your lucky they might
even tighten the acorn nut on the ground rod. They are not required to
check that the ground rod actually works or anything.
I would tie that ground rod back to your central ground point.
Mark
I am admittedly stupid when it comes to grounding, so, was this
actually the proper way to ground this site?
Josh
