On 1/18/2021 9:12 AM, Rich NE1EE wrote:
After I installed my ground grid, the last step was to connect to the house
grounds. There were 3 of them, and every one was loose on the ground rod. They
all appeared to be regulation listed connectors, but poorly installed. Glad I
was there to find that.
Electrical wiring, including grounding, was a mess at the home we bought
in NorCal in 2006. I found multiple mis-wired outlets, including several
in a laundry room/half kitchen fed by phase (hot) and ground from the
240V circuit for the adjacent dryer.
That was in a garage/apartment which now houses my shack; power enters
the house, and is fed to a breaker panel in the second building. The
house had no ground at all -- a #10-#12 (painted) bare copper wiring ran
from the service entrance panel to an outlet for a garden hose, which
was fed by PVC pipe. The ground for the panel in the second building
wandered from the panel up to and through the attic crawl space to the
other side of the building, then run neatly down the outside wall next
to the facings for windows to a ground rod. It was the only ground for
the entire system.
73, Jim K9YC
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