Wouldn't it be cheaper to just get another generator at the second tower? That's a lot of copper at 250'.
Josh Luthman Office: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Mon, Jun 8, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm at a site where two towers are about 250' apart. There's a 2" conduit > between the two towers, with nothing in it but a fiber optic cable. My > tower does not have a generator, but the other one does. The guy at the > other tower offered to let me run electric off of a breaker on his transfer > panel so I could have a generator protected circuit. This sounds great in > theory, but I have a bad feeling about it because (obviously) we have two > separate electric services now and two separate grounding systems. > > If I don't bond the grounds together it seems like different potentials at > each site could equalize by passing energy through the ground/neutral wire > of this theoretical power line, and it would get there via my equipment and > blow something up in the process. > > ....but on the other hand, is bonding the grounds together something > that's actually ok to do? >
