
Originally Posted by
Adamjamma
Grounding has a minimum size and so does bonding, but, water meters are usually bonded with a 10 pr 12 guage wire..so how is that too much.. unless code has changed? Even most cable splitters are usually bonded with a 12 or 14 guage..
or has that changed? Used to wonder why we bonded the splitters on rentals until after I saw lightning hit a trailer park... the trailers that had the cable and telephone stuff bonded to ground spikes were fine, but the three that had no bonding lost almost all electrics and one of them caught fire... the lightning had hit a tree about a hundred feet away.. four trailer closer were all fine...
ever since then, even my amateur radio splitters for my receivers are all bonded to ground.
We don't bond water meters, we use metal underground piping for a grounding electrode. We have to make a bonding jumper around things in that piping such as a meter though. The GEC is 8 AWG or larger and has been for very long time.
Bonding for art 800 items is often smaller conductors. Why do we bond them - to equalize voltage potential between systems.
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