We lost a few AP's (450s, ugh) at the top, and a few SyncInjectors at the base. The AP's were going through WB SP's at the base in our cabinet before they went into the SyncInjectors.
Ok - so really, EVERYTHING should be tied together. It would seem that in our scenario, the electrical ground was grounded to our central grounding point (thus the tower and our equipment) only through our equipment, not directly. So, running a large-ish ground directly from the electrical ground to our central grounding point seems appropriate here. On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Mark Radabaugh <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >> >
