Hi Phil, I use Erico One Shot cad welds on my workshop grounding system. Everything is tied together with cad welded bare 6 AWG and I have 8 foot ground rods, although I had to drive them in at an angle. Our house is on top of a mountain in TN and soil depth varies from probably 6 ft deep to exposed rock in certain parts of the property. This is probably overkill for QRP but I wanted to do it right like we used to do in broadcast.
Chris KD4PBJ > On Jun 5, 2020, at 10:19 AM, Phil Kane <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 6/4/2020 8:50 PM, Ed Tanton wrote: > >> I should have mentioned that. I strip 5 or 6 inches of insulation. That >> was why I cleaned the top of the ground rod and sprayed it with >> electrical lubricant. I used a stainless steel hose clamp to hold the >> stripped wires against the ground rod at each end of the stripped wire >> portions. The next part is what I wrote about to start with. > > Thank you for explaining that. For our commercial and public safety > communication site grounding systems our firm insists on cad-weld at all > exposed and buried connection points but I would suspect that very few > hams, let alone residential or even commercial electricians, would go to > that length. My mentor in that area, the late Tom Croda, who during his > lifetime was the national expert in comm site power and grounding, would > not settle for anything less. > > 73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane > Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402 > > From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest > Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon > ______________________________________________________________ > 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] ______________________________________________________________ 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]
