--- Eric Lemmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Neil,
>
> No correction needed- you're absolutely correct.
> Furthermore, the telephone
> line protector, the cable TV coaxial shield, and the
> lightning protection
> system (if used) must ALL be bonded to the same
> grounding system as the
> electrical service.
>
> 73, Eric Lemmon WB6FLY
>
>
I don't disagree with that , but getting the
installers to do that is something else. I was living
in a house that the power came in on one side and the
telephone line came in the other side. It had its own
ground rod about 60 feet away from the power line
ground. That was probably ok at the time the house
was built, around 1965. There was not too many
devices that hooked to the phone line in use in most
homes. When the cable TV was installed around 1982
the installer put in his 4 foot rod about 3 feet in
the ground . It was on the same side as the telepohne
ground and not bonded ot it. Now this could really be
a bad situation as the cable is hooked into two TV
sets that are plugged into the AC power..
That gave me 3 ground rods that were not tied together
at all.
Not too good.
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