Correct hooking to a water pipe is to be done right at where it enters a building and if the water meter is inside it should be done on the meter side and not the house side. Removing the wire to the equipment ground electrode also called ground rod should never be done unless the main breaker is turned off. That is one reason for using a split bolt the orginal wire would not have to be disturbed. Ron. ----- Original Message ----- From: Jesus Is the Answer To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:14 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Re: Generator Grounding Follow-UP
One could ground to a water pipe, but my next door neighbor who is an electrician, said that one time he started to remove a pipe and he got shocked because they had used it for a ground. In our town, a man who was mowing his lawn, got tired of having to go around the ground rod, so he thought he would remove it. He went immediately to heaven. ---Anthony [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
