I meant to add I couldn't get the shots to fire with the sparking tool I purchased so I ran down to a fireworks store and purchased a box of sparklers. They do a ***fantastic*** job at ignition. Then when you're done after things cool a few gentle taps with a hammer breaks off the thin ceramic form and you're good to go.
Chris KD4PBJ > On Jun 5, 2020, at 12:23 PM, Chris Waldrup <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]
