Is the Generator actually grounded ? most small generators are not. Are you running AC Powered equipment ? you could always convert to DC right at the tower and bring it over to your side.
You can always use a surge protector on the AC line as well. Regards. Faisal Imtiaz Snappy Internet & Telecom 7266 SW 48 Street Miami, FL 33155 Tel: 305 663 5518 x 232 Help-desk: (305)663-5518 Option 2 or Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Moffett" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, June 8, 2015 5:57:20 PM > Subject: [AFMUG] More Grounding stuff > > 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? >
