Re: Building foundation. Trying to locate ground rod

On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:40:43 -0700, terry <tsanford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On Sep 8, 4:15 am, 110111001001000...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:21:04 -0400, Terry <kilow...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I have dug down in front of the house 6 bricks deep and no sigh of a
ground wire. I have hit compacted sand.

Any thoughts?

Anyone?

Keep digging ...........
.
Still not sure why you want/need to find the ground rod (or whatever
metallic object is used as the ground) itself!
On the off-chance that you feel the ground is not doing its job?
In most North American installations (Multi Grounded Neutral,
principle) the neutral wire serving your house will also be grounded
back at the distribution step down transformer, and grounded again
(and only) your neutral to ground at your incoming service panel.l
So if you want to test it? There was a gadget called a ground megger.
I haven't used one for about 40 years.
So there is probaly a modern solid sate equivalent or 'Ground Tester'?
The megger method involved setting out two temporary ground pins and
connecting leads to them and the ground conductor.
You can then measure usually in the low ohms range the resistance path
of the grounding system. Still wondering why you need to find the
ground rod or whatever? To make it meet code? Something floating and
getting a tingle of voltage off it?

I want an extra ground rod and I want to bond the copper water pipe in
the basement.

I had lightning hit a modem, router, and two motherboards.

.

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