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Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique?? #457977 07/20/12 06:28 AM
Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 399 Wilmington, DE, USA jknichols Member
jknichols Member Joined: Jun 2004 Posts: 399 Wilmington, DE, USA	Quote Originally posted by chuckeycharles: ... They want me to terminate the pairs to the protector and then run a ground wire (#10 I suppose) from the protector to some kind of an adapter that plugs into a 110VAC outlet and which supposedly only has continuity with the ground terminal at the outlet. Of course this would send a lightning strike through who knows where in their customer's building Has anybody ever heard of such a thing? This idea seems absolutely wrong and very unsafe No sense in using anything larger than #12 - That's all that will be between the outlet and whatever ground at the panel. Even then the outlet ground is only designed to carry 20A from a hot/ground short long enough to pop a circuit breaker. If a lightning strike doesn't blow the adapter right out of the outlet, it will probably melt the wire or blow half the splices along that run. In other words, Don't Do It!

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	chuckeycharles	07/19/12 09:16 PM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	MnDave	07/19/12 09:53 PM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	chuckeycharles	07/19/12 10:05 PM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	1864	07/19/12 10:17 PM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	KLD	07/20/12 04:44 AM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	EV607797	07/20/12 06:10 AM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	Rcaman	07/20/12 08:50 AM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	jknichols	07/20/12 10:28 AM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	Arthur P. Bloom	07/20/12 06:23 PM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	hbiss	07/20/12 09:21 PM
Re: Lightning Protectors - Strange Grounding Technique??	allanl	07/21/12 10:14 AM

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