I would go with your first plan of bonding your cabinet to the electrical ground / steel conduit versus adding a grounding rod. I think you are going to be better off not having a secondary ground path.
Mark > On Jun 24, 2015, at 5:53 PM, That One Guy /sarcasm > <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a new pop going up im putting the enclosure in tommorrow. > > We get our power from a secondary distribution panel on the leg. This penel > is not directly grounded locally, there is metal conduit going into the > ground where it gets its feed from the primary somewhere else. There is a 4 > o6 6 guage copper ground that their panel in the secondary distrubution is > bonded to, I assume it terminates on the other end of the conduit at the > main. > > We just have a 15 amp breaker in there feeding over to our enclosure via some > non metalic liquid tight. The ground is bonded to our enclosure bond. This is > only 14 guage stranded (its like 6 feet) > > Im figuring at minimum I need to run a bonding wire over and attach to their > copper. > > What I dont know is if I am doing more harm than good by putting in a ground > rod as well for our enclosure. I can make no site changes, and the site > manager doesnt know anything about it so doing it "right" really isnt an > option here. > > I just need to know whether its potentially worse to have my enclosure on a > fresh ground rod potentially making our enclosure a good path for them, If I > place the ground rod between or enclosure and their copper I would at least > be isolating our enclosure, but have the potential for causing issues for > them. > > -- > If you only see yourself as part of the team but you don't see your team as > part of yourself you have already failed as part of the team.
