Terry,
On your perimeter wire, remember that lightning likes to travel in a
straight line, so drive a ground rod at every point where the perimeter
wire makes a turn equal to or greater than 45 degrees. I would advise
you to run the wire all around the foundation perimeter.
The purpose of the perimeter wire is to provide a path for lightning so
it does not punch a hole in your foundation. The wire does not need to
be deep, its purpose is to spread the charge over as much of the earth
as possible.
I will let others expound on the Ufer ground - I have no comment.
73,
Don W3FPR
On 4/25/2018 12:41 PM, Terry Brown wrote:
I am building a new house. It has a UFER foundation ground. I will be putting
ground rods around half the perimeter of the house between my shack and tower.
No. 4 solid copper wire will connect all my ground rods together and will tie
to the UFER ground in two places.
______________________________________________________________
Elecraft mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:[email protected]
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
Message delivered to [email protected]
